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...Athletic Union; heaving the 56-lb. weight 39 ft., 3¼ in. to burst the Amateur record set by mighty Pat McDonald back in 1911; at New York City's Triborough Stadium. Only other record-breaking performer among the 360 senior track & fieldmen was San Francisco's Cornelius Warmerdam, first and only pole vaulter ever to clear 15 ft. (he has done it 26 times). Though his best vault of the day was five inches under his world's record, he raised the meet mark...
...Lady President of Britain's swank St. John's Ambulance Brigade, she toured the U.S. for the Red Cross. Between chores, the Mountbattens visited their daughters, 17-year-old Patricia and 12-year-old Pamela, who since mid-1940 had been living in the U.S. with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt has put her ancient Rolls-Royce up in mothballs for the duration. It gets only five miles to the gallon...
Papers filed in a Manhattan court showed that Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. would get nothing from his late father's estate, because the $910.000 the son owed him was more than the share left to him, and the will stipulated the debt be subtracted from the share...
Three students graduating from Harvard with special honors will deliver the Commencement Parts. Howard G. Hageman will deliver the Latin dissertation; and dissertations in English will be given by Jacob M. Duker and Cornelius A. Wood...