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Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. is a wealthy and energetic 27-year-old who has reported news for Publisher Hearst's newspapers, built up a news service of his own, built up three successful tabloid dailies in California and Florida. He has a considerable patrimony but may justly boast that his success is due not solely to that but to his name and his not inconsiderable journalistic talent...
...quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social citadel. This element feared lest Distinction and Bon Ton, like...
...officers, the sense of which was that a thoroughgoing reinvestigation should be made. Dr. Gumming appointed a committee: Professor W. H. Howell of Johns Hopkins, chairman, and Drs. Julius Stieglitz (University of Chicago), Reid Hunt and David L. Edsall (Harvard University), C.E. A. Winslow (Yale University), W. S. Leathers (Vanderbilt University) and Albert J. Chesley (Minneapolis...
...Emerson D Fine Arts 9b Fogg Lect. Rm. French B Sever 18 French 17 Harvard 2 Geology 4 Mr. Douglas, A1, B3, C8, D9, E10 Geol. Lect. Rm. Mr. Billings, A2, C6, F13 Memorial Hall Mr. Jones, B5, C7, E12 Memorial Hall Mr. Lusk, F15 Memorial Hall Mr. Vanderbilt, B4, E11, F14 Memorial Hall Geology 10 Foxcroft German 2, III, IV Sever 36 German 26a Sever 30 Government 3a Harvard 1 Greek A Sever 29 Greek 12 Sever 29 History 30a A-H Harvard 5 I-Z Harvard 6 Mathematics 13 Harvard 2 Music 3 Sever 11 Philosophy 6a Emerson...
Married. Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of the William Kissam Vanderbilts, to one Earl E. T. Smith of Manhattan; at the W. K. Vanderbilt mansion, soon to be replaced by a commercial structure, Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. Exuberant, the Chicago Tribune reported, "Four gallons of rare perfume were used to spray the interior of the house...