Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brigadier General Cornelius W. Wickersham, in civil life a big-time New York lawyer, commandant of the School for Military Government at Charlottesville, Va. and one of the chief U.S. occupation planners, will be one of General Clay's men Friday. Another: Lewis W. Douglas, onetime Arizona Congressman, Director of the Budget, and veteran of the early New Deal, who will function without an Army commission...
Citizen Fixit. In Teaneck, N.J., John Daddy, 50 and suspicious, watched a man open an automobile door and take out a package, expostulated, got no explanation, promptly fractured his jaw. In police court. Daddy learned that the man was Cornelius Graham, the car's owner...
Married. Emily ("Paddy") Vanderbilt, 19, handsome descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (founder of the New York Central Railroad), daughter of Captain William H. Vanderbilt, U.S.N.R. (ex-Governor of Rhode Island); and Jeptha Homer Wade III, 20, fellow senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, descendant and namesake of a founder of Western Union; in Portsmouth...
Born. To Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 45, well-fixed U.S. Army Air Forces Plans Division officer; and his third wife, Eleanor Searle Whitney; 35, oratorio singer: their (and her) first child, his fourth, a son; in Manhattan. Name Cornelius Searle. Weight...
...staying after 1600; no more money. But I suppose there must be compensations. Anyway, all are invited to the ceremony which is being held at the Chapel in Hahvud Yaad. Bill Cousins is going to be best man and is selling tickets good for one bride's kiss. Colonel Cornelius will be there throwing the rice. Rollie Dykes will be there throwing the old shoes. And--of course--sundry others will be there throwing the bull