Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sports equipment, has been looking for a boatbuilder. It lost out on Chris-Craft Corp., the nation's largest motorboat maker, to NAFI Corp., which is controlled by Wall Street's Shields & Co. (TIME, Feb. 15). After helping to close the Chris-Craft deal, famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields Sr., a Shields & Co. partner, pondered a way to see Brunswick into the boat business. As a director of the Owens Yacht Co., the nation's No. 2 builder of pleasure crafts (1959 sales: $15.3 million), Shields set about bringing the two together. This week Brunswick announced that...
...more ocean races than he can remember, skippered the America's Cup candidate Weatherly two years ago. In the dinghy next him may be George Hinman, commodore of the New York Yacht Club; Bus Mosbacher, helmsman of Vim and one of sailing's best young skippers; or Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., whose celebrated sailor father suffered a heart attack while frostbiting at the age of 61 four years ago. Fact is, sailing a dinghy is probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap...
...unusual new volunteer offered her services to Graham's crusade last week. The volunteer: comely Divorcee Eleanor Searle Whitney, ex-wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, onetime choir soloist in Dover, Ohio, who became one of Billy's most faithful followers during his New York City Crusade in 1957, when she rounded up a Bible class of her Long Island friends for Evangelist Graham to address in private sessions. After a quick tiger-shoot in Nepal and a swing through Iran, Eleanor Whitney let it be known last week that she intends to join Graham, possibly to help...
...This week the prize was won by NAFI Corp. (formerly National Automotive Fibres), which has diversified into oil and television. The price: $40 to $45 million in cash. NAFI is controlled by the Wall Street brokerage firm of Shields & Co., one of whose partners is famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny'') Shields Sr. (TIME cover, July...
...Named to succeed the late Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads (TIME, Aug. 24) as president and director of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute: Seattle-born Dr. Frank Lappin Horsfall Jr., 53, vice president and physician in chief of the Rockefeller Institute, specialist in virology and efforts to find drug treatments for viral infections...