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Last week the news was spread: Cornelius Vanderbilt IV, aged 28, was in financial difficulties. His tabloid newspapers, the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News (maximum circulation 214,000), San Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald (maximum circulation 135,000), the Miami Tab (only 18 months old) needed more money. He had sunk $100,000 of his own money. He had 5,000 fellow stockholders. He had borrowed $1,080,000 from his father. But he still needed $300,000 to put his papers on a paying basis?and his father would lend him no more. He tried to pledge his patrimony?...
Married. Miss Louise King of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., great-great- granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt; to Kenneth A. Shaw of Newport...
...nominations for membership on the Student Committee are: from the class of 1927, Frederick Vanderbilt Field of Lenox, Leo Francis Daley of Andover, and Ellsworth Charles Haggerty of Allston. From the class of 1928 the nominations are: Thorndike Dudley Howe of Boston, Victor Owen Jones of Cambridge, and James Lawrence Pool of New York, and from the class of 1929, Talbot Baker of Milton and Winslow Carlton of New York. The men nominated from the Law School are Theodore William Monroe of Milo, Maine, and Ernest Groesbeck Augevine of Arlington. From the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences the nominees...
Professional ichthyologists of the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History fidgeted last week. The Yacht Ara was in port at Miami, Fla., carrying-besides her owner, Commodore William K. Vanderbilt, amateur ichthyologist-a fresh cargo of exotic marine life from pregnant Pacific depths. There were six-inch sharks-white and gray streaked, tinged with orange; a strange eel; a phosphorescent deep-dwelling fish; and a score or more of other creatures which no one in the Vanderbilt party was scientist enough to identify, if indeed the specimens were identifiable and not new species altogether. Here...
...members of the Clubs are expecting to spend Saturday night at the Vanderbilt Hotel and are returning by boat or train from New York in time for Monday classes...