Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
Divorced. By Edwin Russell, 52, publisher of the Harrisburg Patriot-News; Iris Paine Russell, 40, wealthy descendant of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; on grounds of "incompatibility of character"; after 18 weeks of marriage (which took place last October, just 24 days after he was divorced by her second cousin, Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill); in Juarez, Mexico...
DeSalvo was judged mentally competent to stand trial by Superior Court Judge Cornelius J. Moynihan at a preliminary hearing in the morning...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 67, so admired the artist's primitive entitled Snow Bird that he snapped it up for $200 at the exhibition in Manhattan's Wally F. Galleries. Artist Marylou Whitney returned the compliment, laying out $300 for Belted Kingfisher, one of Sonny's nature studies. Luckily, a swarm of other customers also turned up at the champagne party opening the show to pay a total of $8,825 for the 37 works that Mr. and Mrs. Whitney had painted to benefit the Edward R. Murrow Memorial Fund of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club...
...Named for and partly designed by Cornelius Shields, first winner of the Mallory...