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Show DOUGHBOY PALS ARE INVITED TO SWELL WEDDING NEW YORK, April 29. Dough-boy Dough-boy pals of Cornelius Vanderbllt, Jr., who served as a private with the 27th division in France, mingled ming-led with members of Now York's most exclusive social circles In St. Thomas' Episcopal church today to witness his wedding to Miss Rachel Littleton, half-sister of Martin Littleton, widely known lawyer. The bridegroom Is the 1son of Brigadier. General Cornelius Vanderbllt and one of the heirs to the Vanderbllt millions and the bride is the daughter of the late Mr. end Mrs. Thomas J. Littleton, of Chattanooga, Tonn". Rev. F. M. Stiers, rector of the church, performed per-formed the ceremony. Police reserves were scattered around the church, but the throng seeking to catch a glimpse of the bridal couple and their guests was so large that It broke through the lines and It was with difficulty that a pathway for the 2,000 Invited Invit-ed guects was kept open. After the ceremony a reception wao held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Littleton, to which seven hundred guests were Invited. Wedding gifts, said to exceed $1,000,000 In value, were received by the couple. |