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...Most spectacular athlete in the U.S. is nonchalant, 27-year-old Cornelius ("Dutch") Warmerdam, a Piedmont, Calif, schoolteacher with a catlike spring in his legs. The world's only 15-ft. pole vaulter, Warmerdam has soared to that height or more 27 times in the past three years, has made fans expect a new record every time he grips bamboo. Last week the Flying Dutchman worked into the groove, nearly reaching the mezzanine with each leap. But the best he could do was 15 ft. 1½ in.-a new Garden record, but 6¼ inches under...
...Cornelius V. Starr, a 50-year-old, California-born businessman took a 'round-the-world tour in 1919. His first and last stop was Shanghai. He opened a small insurance business there, by 1941 had offices on several continents...
...Cornelius Starr bought the English-language Shanghai Evening News for $2,500. Starr changed the paper's name to the Post, later bought out the British-owned Mercury for $10,000, hired as editor 44-year-old, Minnesota-born Randall Gould, ex-Far East correspondent for TIME, United Press, Christian Science Monitor...
Chief of Auto Ordnance food research is John Cornelius Donnelly, who has been dry-pressing since 1934, when he first applied the principle to coffee, freezing roasted beans while he squeezed them at 1,500-2,000 Ib. per sq. in. to produce a product that yields almost double the number of cups per pound. ("The freezing," says Engineer Donnelly, "functions as an anesthetic to avoid damage to the tissues, fats and cells during the squeeze.") He reports reductions in volume (over and above dehydration reductions) of 90% for sauerkraut, 80% for cabbage, 75% for potatoes, 65% for onions, beets...
...jersey last month. (They move to Texas next.) The grocer wants $62, the craters $113, the shoe merchant $10, and the ex-chauffeur $90. If a sheriff's sale is authorized, local natives will have a chance to pick up a bronze bust of the original Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt and the Vanderbilt family's elegant coat of arms...