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Four years ago, Cornelius Alexander Horton, 6, had his picture taken. It was published in an annual picture-report by New York City's School Superintendent Harold George Campbell. "A Very Good...
Last week the city's 38,000 schoolteachers, polled by Dr. Campbell, overwhelmingly chose "A Very Good Boy" as their favorite picture. Next day, in Brooklyn, a New York Times reporter and a cameraman found the boy who had posed for it. Cornelius Alexander Horton was now 10. Reputation: "A holy terror...
Seeking Divorce. Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., thrice-married, gadabout, society author & lecturer; from Helen Varner Vanderbilt; in Carson City, Nev. Grounds: three years' separation. (Last month Mrs. Vanderbilt announced she would sue Vagabond Vanderbilt for divorce if he stopped in one place long enough to be served...
Amyiot felt that there was not any split on the Monthly, but rather that the five editors left what they had mistaken for "a sinking ship." These who went over to the Advocate were: William Abrahams, John Felker, Harry Feltenstein, Sloan Wilson, and Cornelius Ayer Wood...
...organized baseball and thought his $5,000 last year was big money) proved he could count. He accepted the Philadelphia Athletics' offer: a $45,000 bonus, a two-year contract at $10,000 a year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid baseballer of the year. His 1940 income of $55,000 will be more than...