Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898 – 1974), who often wrote under the name of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., was the son of Grace and Cornelius Vanderbilt III, who worked in the newspaper industry, and wrote several books.
He attended Harstrom's Tutoring School and St. Paul's as a young man, then served in the Ambulance Service during the First World War where he became a driver when a general asked the enlisted men if anyone could drive a Rolls Royce. Van...
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Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (1898 – 1974), who often wrote under the name of Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., was the son of Grace and Cornelius Vanderbilt III, who worked in the newspaper industry, and wrote several books.
He attended Harstrom's Tutoring School and St. Paul's as a young man, then served in the Ambulance Service during the First World War where he became a driver when a general asked the enlisted men if anyone could drive a Rolls Royce. Vanderbilt was discharged from the army after WWI as a buck private. In 1922, he joined the newly organized New York Civitan Club. He reenlisted for World War II as a major. To his parents' dismay, he decided to become a newspaperman. His parents detested the press, seen by them as an invasion of privacy. He worked as a staff member of the New York Herald and later The New York Times. Considered a bohemian by his parents, he was frequently at odds with them.
In the early 1920s, Vanderbilt launched several newspapers and tabloids—the Los Angeles...
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