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Frederick Vanderbilt Field '27 of Lenox...
From Paris came a report that Fashion has once again laid hold on Art. The account is that all fashionable women must have portraits of themselves, lifesize, hanging in their drawing rooms. It was recalled that Mrs. Reginald Vanderbilt recently brought a portrait of this type...
Frederick Vanderbilt Field '27 of Lenox...
...after the famed gum-chewers' sheetlets* of Manhattan. Compactly laid out, swathed in photographs, crowded with headlines, cluttered with "features", tabloid newspapers compress the national and international news the day with the local and incidental, expanding the latter into longer stories whenever it possesses sufficiently sensational details. The Vanderbilt papers, however, do not exploit crime am scandal as do their Manhattan prototypes. Their two most visible bents arc educational (stories of science and invention, popularly told, and local school notes) and domestic stories (of family-life, "happy reunion" pictures, brides and grooms...
...Signed) "CORNELIUS VANDERBILT...