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...such words as those spoken last week, as well as by fundamental disagreements, wars are made. Officially the U. S. kept silent, but there were those who talked back. Arrived in the U. S. from Shanghai, Publisher Cornelius Vander Starr of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury did his bit to fan the smoldering crisis by telling Manhattan reporters that Japan was a fifth-rate power whose principal weapon was bluff. "Regardless of her bombast, Japan will under no circumstances risk actual war with America," said lean Publisher Starr, whom the Japanese have separated not only from his newspaper but from...
...attitude," showed what an ecclesiastical revolution widespread divorce has wrought. For paradoxically, Episcopalians, despite their strong stand in the past against divorce, almost certainly have the highest divorce rate of any U. S. sect. Among the Episcopalians whom the revised canon might make eligible for Communion: Elliott Roosevelt, Cornelius Vanderbilt...
...Zinsser still went to his laboratory every day, jaunty and gay. But he knew the end was near. He was taking X-ray treatments, which did no good. In mid-August he went to Manhattan, entered world-famed Memorial Hospital under the care of his friend, Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads. Thirty-six hours before he died, Hans Zinsser lost consciousness...
...price booster was Copperman No. 3, Phelps Dodge's Louis S. Cates, who moved the market up ½? a pound to 11½?. Booster Gates has been wrong on his market many times, and no Phelps Dodge price sticks until Coppermen 1 and 2, Anaconda's Cornelius F. Kelley and Kennecott's Steve Birch, stamp it O.K. This time (with one eye on Washington) they did. Figuring this was just a starter, their customers bought in a rush...
...young men of 77 showed the world that they are not superannuated: Henry Ford in celebration of his birthday took a ride for photographers on the light (12 Ib.) English bicycle on which he likes to take a three-mile spin every evening after supper; Connie Mack (Cornelius McGillicudy), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, donned mask, chest protector and catcher's mitt to demonstrate the technique which got him a job as catcher with the Washington Senators...