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...symbol of eminence. Metropolitan box holders have begun to dodge their assessments. Last week the fact-facing news came out that the real-estate company is feeling the pinch, may face liquidation. So said its President Robert S. Brewster in a letter to the Opera Association's Chairman Cornelius Newton Bliss. In reply, the Association (which has a lease for next season) asked for an option on the opera house for $1,500,000 (one-third cash). Should the option contract be approved by the box holders, the Metropolitan would once more publicly pass...
...hard-drinking World War major in the A. E. F. (gassed, twice cited for gallantry), a Brigadier General in the National Guard of Pennsylvania. In January 1938 he was glad to take an $8,000 job as city solicitor from his onetime law partner, Pittsburgh's Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully. Last week cleft-chinned, big-beaked Churchill Mehard gave an up-to-date accounting of his finances. On trial in a Pittsburgh criminal court for misdemeanor in office and taking bribes, he informed a badgering prosecutor: "All I have now is a few dollars in cash...
...long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center). In equal parts swank, sober and glamorous, the company (more than 6,000) included such varied personages as Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ex-Premier Juan Negrin of Spain, Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. For them and for New York World's Fair visitors until October 1, the new Museum was decked out with a big, cream-of-the-crop exhibition of "Art in Our Time" paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, photography, industrial...
...step, however, for both these two boys were considered two of the worst in the business, with Harry ranking well up in the corn bass division. Goodman has added Artie Bernstein, one of the most experienced and best of the bass men around, and has replaced Irving with Corky Cornelius, who, while he plays just as loud as Irving did, has many more ideas . . . Next item of interest is that Bob Zurke is leaving Bob Crosby to form his own band and to record for Victor. While it's true that there was some friction between Bob and the other...
...Born. To Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 40, multimillionaire horseman, and his wife, the former Gwladys Crosby ("Gee") Hopkins, 33: a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...