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...Cornelius Vanderbilt stayed home with a cold. Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh and Lady Decies were, as usual, solidly barnacled with jewelry. Lucius Beebe, who had condescended to the wartime informality of a black tie, apologized: "I feel as naked as a jay bird." Somebody stole a mink coat while its owner, the wife of a South American diplomat, was not looking. It was said that Lily Pons had lost an emerald. An air-raid warden, in a tuxedo, white arm band and white steel helmet, wandered around the lobby announcing a blackout. "The most individual and interesting performer," averred...
Definition. In Chicago, Circuit Judge Cornelius J. Harrington ruled that a husband cannot justifiably charge his wife with being cruel to him unless he has been put in actual danger of his life...
...Cornelius W. Dresselhuys smart, blonde asbestos heiress (sister of Playboy Tommy Manville), gave a sort of farewell luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless...
...long espoused the newfangled ideas which old-fashioned Henry Ford has never completely accepted. The three: stocky, balding Laurence Spence Sheldrick, who came to Ford 20 years ago and has long worked as chief engineer; lean, sandy-haired Eugene Turrenne Gregorie, boss of the body-design division; quiet, patient Cornelius Willett Van Ranst, who helped develop the Ford airplane motor which now powers Ford-made tanks...
...Senior seven are Hugh Calkins '45 of Newton, Army; Peter W. Fay '45, of Cambridge, Army; George W. Kennerly '44, Belmont; Cornelius Lansing '45, Chappaqua, New York, Army Medical Reserve; David R. Matlack '44, Germantown, Pa., NROTC; Irving Rudmand '45, Dorchester, Army Medical Reserve; and Daniel L. Salem '44, Cambridge, Fighting French...