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...Cornelius Vander Starr, No. 1 life insurer in the Far East, real-estate speculator, owner of the Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury and a TiMEstyle China newsmagazine. East. Ten months ago the editor of Starr's Ta Mei Wan Pao, Chinese edition of the Evening Post & Mercury, was shot dead as he crossed the bridge over Soochow Creek. Last April Starr's newspaper plant was bombed, killing three Chinese and an Annamese policeman...
...patriot that Paul Hoffman spoke -Old Cornelius Cole, whose life spanned a good part of U. S. history...
Born in 1822, died in 1924, Cornelius Cole helped make California an anti-slavery State, and went to the U. S. Senate after the Civil War. Eighteen years ago, on Senator Cole's looth birthday, Paul Hoff man had heard him speak. Said Hoffman: "He declared that human liberties were won in this country at a tremendous sacrifice of blood and fortune; that we must be ready to fight again, if necessary, to preserve them. 'Remember, gentlemen,' he said, 'as a small boy I sat on the knees of Revolutionary soldiers who had lost arms fighting...
...mile, a seven-foot high jump, a 15-foot pole vault were considered as unlikely as a cow jumping over the moon. Year after year U. S. athletes, a dedicated, concentrated and highly competitive lot, have approached nearer & nearer these impossible figures. Last week, at Berkeley, Calif., Pole Vaulter Cornelius Warmerdam of the San Francisco Olympic Club became the first trackman officially to do the "impossible." In a triangular track meet (University of California, Washington State College, San Francisco Olympic Club) he succeeded in clearing the bar at 15 ft.-one inch higher than the world's record...
Henry A. Frost, professor of Architecture; George Sarton, professor of the History of Science; Paul D. Bartlett, associate professor of Chemistry; Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., associate professor of Mineralogy...