Romance of the week broke in tiny Plymouth, Ohio, where Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 42, married the village doctor's daughter, pretty Eleanor Searle, 32. Surprised as anybody was The New Yorker, whose Whitney profile appeared next day with not a mention of the bride. When they met in 1937 she was a receptionist at Pan American Airways, he the polo-playing, twice married chairman of the board. She had come to Manhattan some seven years before to study singing as the protégée of aged Impresario Dan Frohman, who hailed from nearby Sandusky. In...
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