People: People, Aug. 18, 1941

In a tabloid snob-gossip's dream week, Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 28, the country's best-known young multimillionaire sportsman, was sued for divorce in New York by Manuela Hudson Vanderbilt (charges: adultery with two corespondents). Said Alfred's mother, Mrs. Margaret Emerson, who has been married four times: "I wouldn't give much for him if he didn't. After all, he's a normal young man and he has been separated from his wife for eight months. He wouldn't be a son of mine if he stopped living." Wept crocodile Hearstling Cholly Knickerbock er: "What a pity that we...

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