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	ACBL Hall of Fame - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
		Harold Vanderbilt of Newport RI, was a bridge authority whose revisions of auction bridge scoring principles created modern contract bridge, also a system-maker and champion player.
		Vanderbilt took up bridge seriously in 1906, and his partnership with J. Elwell was considered the strongest in the U.S. from 1910 to 1920.
		Vanderbilt was a member of the Laws Committee of the Whist Club of New York that made the American laws of contract bridge (1927, 1931) and the first international code (1932).
	web2.acbl.org /halloffame/vanderbilt.htm (602 words)

	Encyclopedia: Harold Vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, born July 6, 1884 - died July 4, 1970, was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family who was a railroad executive, a champion yachtsman and a champion bridge player.
		Born in Oakdale, New York, the third child and second son of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Erskine Smith, to family and friends he was known by the nickname "Mike." He was a brother to William Kissam Vanderbilt II and Consuelo Vanderbilt.
		Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, non-sectarian university in Nashville, Tennessee.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Harold-Vanderbilt (1356 words)

	ACBL Hall of Fame - Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
		Harold S. Vanderbilt of Newport RI is the person responsible for this improvement.
		Vanderbilt was a member of the Laws Committee of the Whist Club of New York that made the American laws of contract bridge (1927, 1931) and the first international code (1932).
		In 1968, Vanderbilt spent more than $50,000 to recreate the lost molds for the replicas of the American trophy and to provide a quantity of replicas of both trophies sufficient to last from 20 to 40 years.
	www.acbl.org /halloffame/vanderbilt.htm (663 words)

	Harold Vanderbilt (past owner)
		Successive generations of Vanderbilts continued to run the railroad and grow the family fortunes, culminating with Harold Vanderbilt, who was born in 1884 and lived into the 1970's.
		Harold Vanderbilt and his supporters resigned, and Young soon found that his approaches to the business were not as effective as hoped.
		Harold Vanderbilt died in 1970, at the age of 86.
	www.nyc-3.com /vanderbilt.html (1337 words)

	History - History Of Belcourt Castle - Alva Erskine Smith
		Her brother in law, Cornelius was slated to inherit the entire Vanderbilt fortune, according to the eldest son tradition of the era.
		Vanderbilt negotiated tirelessly to arrange the best alliance by lavish entertaining, grand balls and parties, tea dances and small private dinner parties ending late in 1895 with the marriage ceremonies and celebrations in New York, Newport and London celebrating the union of Consuelo to the 23-year old Ninth Duke of Marlborough.
		She moved from Marble Palace to Belcourt, and brought with her 12-year-old son, Harold Vanderbilt, for whom Oliver Belmont built an addition on the third floor of Belcourt, off the musician?s balcony, over the loggia (now the salon).
	www.belcourtcastle.com /history/alva_smith.html (642 words)

	Vanderbilt Trohpy
		The Vanderbilt Trophy for the Vanderbilt National Knockout Team Championships was donated in 1928 by Harold S. Vanderbilt, who won the event in 1932 and 1940.
		The Vanderbilt was originally contested annually in New York, as a separate championship, until 1958 when it became part of the Spring North American Championships.
		Vanderbilt winners receive replicas of the trophy, a practice initiated by Vanderbilt from the first running of the event and perpetuated by a $100,000 trust fund administered by ACBL under the terms of Vanderbilt’s will.
	www.bridgeguys.com /VGlossary/VanderbiltHistory.html (420 words)

	History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The jeep was bought by Harold Sterling Vanderbilt in 1945 for use on his farm, Mt. Airy, in Mt. Jackson, Virginia.
		Vanderbilt take the jeep out for a ride on his property, decide to walk back and then send his chauffeur out to find the CJ and bring it back.
		Harold Sterling Vanderbilt (1884-1970) was the great grandson of Cornelius (The Commodore) Vanderbilt (1794-1877) the American railroad magnate.
	www.geocities.com /haroldthejeep/history.html (342 words)

	Harold Stirling Vanderbilt
		Harold Stirling Vanderbilt (July 6, 1884 - July 4, 1970) of Newport RI, was a bridge authority whose revisions of auction bridge scoring principles created modern contract bridge, also a system-maker and a champion player.
		Vanderbilt graduated from Harvard Law School in 1910, then entered his family's railroad business, New York Central, founded by his great- grandfather, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
		To perpetuate this practice of awarding individual replicas, Vanderbilt further bequeathed to the ACBL a trust fund of $100,000, a gift that wisely foresaw the possibility of inflation, but provided that excess funds, if any, can be donated io Vanderbilt's name to a charity of ACBL's choice.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /bridge/hsvanderbilt.htm (677 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		William K. Vanderbilt (1849-1920) was the second son of William Henry Vanderbilt and the grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, patriarch of the Vanderbilt dynasty.
		The Vanderbilts frequently took long cruises aboard Alva, one of the largest yachts in the world when it was built in 1886.
		Harold Vanderbilt assisted the Preservation Society of Newport County in purchasing Marble House and opening it as a museum.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Davis/newport/biographies/wkvanderbilt.html (295 words)

	18th European Youth Team Championships
		Vanderbilt had been born into the then richest family in America and on his father's death in 1920 he inherited an estate worth well over $50 million.
		Vanderbilt actually came up with little new but rather gathered together what he considered to be the best features of a number of games already in existence.
		He awarded the Vanderbilt Cup for what is still the most prestigious teams competition in American bridge and won his own trophy twice, in 1932 and 1940.
	www.eurobridge.org /competitions/02Torquay/Bulletins/8MonPg3.htm (684 words)

	America's Cup Inductees: Harold S. Vanderbilt
		While only a schoolboy when the first SHAMROCK came over to challenge in 1899, "Mike" Vanderbilt was destined to rebuff Sir Thomas Lipton's fifth try for the Cup.
		A great-grandson of "Commodore" Vanderbilt, who founded the New York Central in 1869, Vanderbilt was always more interested in sailing than he was in railroads.
		Vanderbilt is also credited with developing the yacht-racing rules that are the basis of those in force today.
	www.herreshoff.org /Tops/mmvtvanderbilttop.htm (194 words)

	Harold S. Vanderbilt — Infoplease.com
		Cornelius Vanderbilt - Cornelius Vanderbilt industrialist, financier Born: 5/27/1794 Birthplace: Port Richmond, N.Y. bridge, card game: History - History Bridge probably originated in the Middle East in the 19th cent.
		The Vanderbilt mausoleum on Staten Island, New York City.
		Harold Maier, comity, and the foreign relations restatement.
	www.infoplease.com /ipsa/A0109721.html (168 words)

	Vanderbilt, Cornelius on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Although his efforts to gain control of the Erie RR proved unsuccessful, Vanderbilt vastly expanded his railroad empire and by 1873 connected Chicago with New York City by rail.
		New Brunswick, N.J., succeeded Cornelius Vanderbilt as president of the New York Central RR and augmented the family fortune.
		One of the sons of William K. Vanderbilt, Harold Sterling Vanderbilt, 1884-1970, born Suffolk co., Long Island, N.Y., gained note as a sportsman.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/V/VandbltC1.asp (688 words)

	Vanderbilt Museum · The Mansion
		Rooms in the historic house are on exhibit and exemplify the eclectic taste and collecting interests of William K. Vanderbilt II.
		The mansion was designed by the New York architectural firm Warren & Wetmore, whose Grand Central Station in New York City [1903-13] was designed and built for the New York Central Railroad, one of several Vanderbilt family enterprises.
		Later additions to the mansion and other estate buildings were executed by architect Ronald H. Pearce, who trained in the office of Warren & Wetmore and continued to make improvements at "Eagle's Nest" after Warren's retirement in 1931.
	www.vanderbiltmuseum.org /home.php?section=mansion&sub=timeline (114 words)

	Sailing photos, Harold Vanderbilt, The American Cup
		Harold Vanderbilt and his wife cruised the Florida coast during the winter season.
		But Harold Vanderbilt steadily divested from his railroad properties and he owned only 10'000 shares in 1954, when the Vanderbilt faction was ousted from the Board by a group of financiers headed by Robert Young and including Texas oil millionaires Clint Murchinson and Sid Richardson.
		Harold Vanderbilt was the first to develop the timed start, for ever known as the Vanderbilt start.
	www.parsec-santa.com /sail/vanderbilt.html (1780 words)

	Town of Manalapan, FL
		Snuggled on the eastern shore of one of the fastest growing areas in the State and Nation, it remains a small and quiet community dedicated to maintaining exceptional levels of service, controlled development and a conservative approach to government.
		First recorded in history in 1889 when President Benjamin Harrison granted George H. Carter a homestead on the yet unnamed land, the sparsely populated settlement was incorporated in 1931 by Commodore Harold Vanderbilt with the granting of a charter to the “Town of
		The geographical configuration of the community is unique in that two separate areas exist, contiguous only by water.
	www.manalapan.org /321683.html (323 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cornelius Vanderbilt, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		With his wife, Alice Gwynne Vanderbilt, 1845–1934, he built the famous "Breakers" estate in Newport, R.I. Their daughter, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, 1875–1942, became a sculptor, art patron, and founder (1930) of New York's Whitney Museum of American Art.
		The fourth son of William H. Vanderbilt was George Washington Vanderbilt, 1862–1914, b.
		One of the sons of William K. Vanderbilt, Harold Sterling Vanderbilt, 1884–1970, born Suffolk co., Long Island, N.Y., gained note as a sportsman.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/VandbltC.html (651 words)

	bridgeFILES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harold S. Vanderbilt who codified the game, and to some extent the laws, of contract bridge in 1925.
		Harold S. Vanderbilt published a revised version of his system, that interest in this system was reborn.
		Harold S. Vanderbilt in the early pioneer days of the game of bridge.
	groups.msn.com /bridgeFILES/club.msnw (336 words)

	Class and Leisure at America's First Resort: Newport, Rhode Island, 1870-1914
		Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933) was one of America's leading socialites during the Gilded Age.
		The Vanderbilts hired architect Richard Morris Hunt to design a palace modeled after the Petit Trianon at Versailles.
		Astor acquiesced and called on the Vanderbilts in return for an invitation to the Vanderbilt ball.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/davis/newport/biographies/avanderbilt.html (411 words)

	Glossary V
		Harold Vanderbilt to the winners of the National Knockout Team Championships which were founded in 1928.
		The managing organization heading the oversight of the championships and the presentation of the trophy was the Vanderbilt Cup Committee.
		Harold Vanderbilt for the first World Olympiad Team Championship held in Italy in 1960.
	www.bridgeguys.com /VGlossary/GlossV.html (2550 words)

	Prof. L. Harold Levinson : Faculty : Vanderbilt University Law School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Professor L. Harold Levinson (B.B.A., L.L.B. Miami 1957, 1962; L.L.M. Columbia 1974).
		Professor Levinson joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 1973 after teaching at the University of Florida College of Law.
		Speaker at public hearing of ABA Commission on Multidisciplinary Practice, Washington, DC, Nov. 13, 1998 (representing American Association of Attorney-Certified Public Accountants -- prepared remarks and summary of testimony are posted on Commission's website).
	law.vanderbilt.edu /faculty/levinson.html (432 words)

	Rangerhistory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harold Vanderbilt's RANGER was born from the challenge made by Sir T.O.M. Sopwith (ENDEAVOUR) in 1935.
		Meanwhile, Vanderbilt, the Owners of so many previous Defenders, contacted yacht designers Sparkman and Stephens to discuss the possibility of a new J Class yacht.
		The brief was to design a maximum size J Yacht under the Universal Rule with a waterline length of 87 foot, moderate beam and considerable balasting the forefoot to improve stability.
	www.sy-ranger.com /history.html (873 words)

	Gator Football Boxscores @ Gatorzone.com
		Vanderbilt vs Florida (Nov 03, 2001 at Gainesville, Fla.) SACKS (UA-A): Vanderbilt-None.
		Play-by-Play Summary (1st quarter) The Automated ScoreBook For Football Vanderbilt vs Florida (Nov 03, 2001 at Gainesville, Fla.) UF Captains: 4 M.Manuel, 45 A.Davis, 71 M.Pearson VU Captains: 40 N.Morrow, 41 A.Bradford, 55 J.Byrum, 85 D.Stricker COIN TOSS: VU wins the toss and defers.
		F 3-5 V35 Willie Green rush to the VU45, fumble by Willie Green recovered by VU Libnir Telusca at VU45, Libnir Telusca for 5 yards to the 50 yardline (Jeff Creveling).
	www.gatorzone.com /football/boxscore.php?gameid=538 (4114 words)

	Harold Moses, M.D.: MMC/VICC Partnership (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Harold L. Moses is the Founding Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.
		He received the M.D. degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in 1962.
		He has over 200 scientific publications and was the recipient of an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute in 1986.
	www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /vicc/micc/moses.html (314 words)

	drogist.ontheweb.nu - vanderbilt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The original Vanderbilt Cup The Vanderbilt Cup was the first major trophy in American auto racing.
		Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, born July 6, 1884 died July 4, 1970, was a member of the prominent United States Vanderbilt family who was a railroad executive, a champion yachtsman...
		Vanderbilt Inmate # FL- M- 109 39 years old, 5'9 tall, 220 pounds, with brown eyes and fl hair.
	drogist.ontheweb.nu /d/vanderbilt (518 words)

	NEW YORK CENTRAL SYSTEM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Neither Metzman nor Central's Chairman Harold S. Vanderbilt had to be told that Young's Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co. had become by far the largest single owner of Central's stock.
		Harold S. Vanderbilt, great-grandson of empire-building Commodore Vanderbilt, who made the Central great, owns only 10,000.
		He airily added that he wanted a Vanderbilt on the board because "I can't imagine a New York Central board without at least one Vanderbilt...
	members.aol.com /airlineyard/robertyoungsquest.html (15389 words)

	Bridge - Info, Tricks, Cheats, Walkthroughs, & Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1904, the concept of using an auction phase to determine which player got to designate the trump suit caught hold, and this variation was known as "auction bridge".
		The modern game was the result of innovations to auction bridge made by Harold Vanderbilt.
		He wrote down his rules for contract bridge in 1925 and it became the dominant form of the game within a few years.
	www.kurdistanline.com /bridge.html (296 words)

	Museum of American Financial History
		In America, some of the legendary names in the history of the nation's capital markets were making their reputations: Baker, Morgan, Vanderbilt, Gould, Ford, Whitney, Plant, Hearst, Cassatt.
		He made a mistake that lead to the death of a man, yet at one time or another J.P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Junius S. Morgan, Jr., A.J. Cassatt, and Alfred G. Vanderbilt all relied totally on his skill, judgment, and integrity.
		Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Harry Paine Whitney, William Randolph Hearst, A.J. Drexel, August Belmont, William K. Vanderbilt, Harold S. Vanderbilt, Junius S. Morgan, Jr., A.J. Cassat, Alfred G. Vanderbilt all bought yachts or tenders at one time or another from the Herreshoffs.
	www.financialhistory.org /fh/1996/56-1.html (1750 words)

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