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...tense, wiry Cornelius ("Neelie") Vanderbilt Jr. The Manhattan prints on his bed said that he was just back from Europe, where he had been gathering material-interviews and articles for serial publication-with which he expected to recoup his fortunes, which fell with his newspapers in Florida and California (TIME...
Young Publisher Vanderbilt soon set his visitors right. He had been to Europe primarily to ask plastic surgeons to cure his jaw of a war-gas infection-which they had failed to do. The interviews he had obtained were "incidental," simply the result of his "reportorial instinct." (The visiting reporters nodded, impressed.) He had flown about Europe, seeing Lloyd George in England, Briand and Caillaux in France, Mussolini in Italy, Pilsudski in Poland, and the onetime Kaiser himself at Doom. The one-time Kaiser had been bitter towards the U. S., had blamed General Pershing (with whom Publisher Vanderbilt...
Then Publisher Vanderbilt told his Philadelphia guests something that he had concealed from re- porters in New York. Not only had he been assured by his lawyers (Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, Dudley Field Malone) that progress was being made in the reconstruction of his wealth; not only might he go to court to obtain his patrimony, which is withheld because his father, Cornelius III, "has old fashioned ideas about the newspaper field"; not only was he "wiser for a bad experiment"-chiefly as touched the selection of lieutenants-and determined to conduct his affairs more astutely in the future...
South America. Expeditions to remote corners of the world are more and more becoming fashionable among wealthy folk as things to do instead of merely as things to finance. William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist, cruised the Pacific last winter and brought home strange specimens in his yacht Ara (TIME, Apr. 12). Manufacturer Jesse Metcalf (woolens) is off to collect monster lizards at Komodo, Dutch East Indies, (TIME, March 22). George Eastman (kodaks) is in Africa hunting with his cameras (TIME, March 22). Last week, Mrs. Marshall Field of Chicago, in the role of official photographer, sailed with a Field Museum...