Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailing is one sport in which an athlete is supposed to improve with age. Cornelius Shields, the grand master of U.S. sailing, is 67, and he insists: "I learn something new each day." At 40, Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher is practically a prodigy. Yet last week, as the America's Cup 12-meter trials got under way in the wind-rippled waters off Newport, R.I., Mosbacher turned in a performance that would be difficult for anyone to beat. As skipper of Weatherly, a good, but never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against...
...built in 1884 by John W. Ellis, has been a boys' school, and is being razed to become part of the campus of a girls' college. Ochre Court, built in 1888-91 by Ogden Goelet, is a Roman Catholic women's college. The Breakers, built by Cornelius Vanderbilt and Belcourt, the house of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, are tourist attractions; The Breakers draws some 50,000 curious trippers a year at $1.75 a head...
...speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic margin. "We don't know what to believe," says veteran U.S. Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, adviser to the Columbia crew that easily defeated Britain's Sceptre to win the cup in 1958. "But we do know one thing though-this boat is no Sceptre. We're very concerned about our competition this year." Tax-Free Devices. After a 111-year monopoly...
...annual business meeting the HSA Corporation expanded the board to 17 members and appointed Paul A. Newsome '29, president of the public relations firm of Newsome and Company, and HCUA chairman Cornelius J. Minihan '63 to fill the new positions...
...Dennis J. Lynch, (Leverett), A. Manaster, (Adams), Paul , (Dudley), Cornelius J. Minihan, ), Edwin S. Murray, (Dudley), , (Kirkland), David Rocke Jr., (Eliot), Richard B. Ruge, ( Eliot W. Scull, (Eliot), Seth A. , (Dunster), Albert R. Straus, ), Charles M. Warchol, ( Roger C. Wiegand, (Quincy), G. Wilson, (Winthrop), Arthur H. (Dudley), and Alan W. Wolff...