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Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., young publisher of three tabloids which died quickly, was completely reconciled, last week, with his parents, Gen. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. "They no longer oppose my career as a journalist," said Son Vanderbilt, as he continued writing pieces for syndicates and magazines to help pay off his tabloid debts.
James ["Bud"] Stillman, Manhattan banker's son, who, as every gum-chewer knows, married the Cinderella of the Canadian woods, entered last week the Harvard Medical School. He took up residence with his wife (nee Lena Wilson) in Brookline, Mass. Said she: "This home of ours is really a student home. My husband has to study hard, you know. . . . His career is ahead of him and he doesn't want to be interrupted by too much gaiety."
Ludwig Lewisohn, Jewish author who has suffered from Christian ostracism, recommends in his new book, Midchannel, that states invest rabbis with full legal powers in affairs affecting Jews, especially concerning marriage and divorce. Several European countries have such autonomous courts. Manhattan has an extra-legal one whose chief function has become the smoothing of disputes between Jewish manufacturers and tradesmen.
George A. Lytton, Chicago men's-clothing tycoon, sportsman,* has a daughter, Rosemary, old enough to go to parties. Last week, she announced that parties are a "bore," went to work in The Hub, which is the name of her father's men's-clothing store. "By spring," said she, "I hope to have attained some slight degree of success. . . ."
Lord Melchett, onetime Sir Alfred Mond, paid $200,000 for a servant who can do no work. But the servant is pleasant to look at—for it is a painting by Rembrandt of his own servant, Hendrickje Stoffels. Sir Joseph Duveen, the seller, said that he was glad an Englishman got the painting, though an American would have paid him a higher price.
Julian Sorell Huxley, biologist-writer grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley (Darwin's protagonist), eldest son of Leonard Huxley (editor, Cornhill Magazine), brother of Aldous Leonard Huxley (writer of lightly ironical books) last week was trying to organize a grand telepathic powwow. Beginning this month and continuing for 16 weeks he wants people who believe that they can propel their ideas and wishes towards others to try doing so, and report results to him.* Particularly does he want the blind to experiment "to determine whether a special sensitiveness compensates for the loss of sight."
The 75-year-old twin sons of Gen. Charles Henry Montgomerie y Agramonte, heard that their father had celebrated his 98th birthday on the porch of his home in Popotla, near Mexico City, with many a friend and with the words: "All my life I have drunk Bourbon whiskey and I haven't got through yet." The twin sons congratulated him by cable from Paris. Father Agramonte still goes to his law office (except on holidays), is a patent attorney for Oilman Edward L. Doheny. He has fought all over the face of the earth—in the Civil, Cuban and Crimean Wars, in the India mutiny, in the Maori insurrection in New Zealand.