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...Willie Cornelius Rogers, a former Oklahoma village schoolmaster, is pained by the unkind suggestion that multitudes of people voted for him for Congressman in 1932 under the misapprehension that he was an ex-cowboy who cracked jokes. His chief accomplishment in Washington was to shoot a hole-in-one on the Soldiers' Home golf course. He got through the 1934 and 1936 elections all right, but this year he is worried. By this time, of course, news has filtered through to the masses that the real Will Rogers was killed in an airplane crash in Alaska in 1935. What...
Whitney-bred, Du Pont-owned Dauber, a grandson of famed Man o' War, was a thoroughly acceptable winner of last week's $69,000 Preakness Stakes, the toniest and richest race for three-year-old thoroughbreds this year. Purchased at the dispersal sale of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's famed stable last November, Dauber had not won a stake race this year for his new owner, William du Pont Jr., horsiest member of the Wilmington clan...
Frenchman in the U. S. He was the guest at Newport of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, and on wisecracking terms with President Roosevelt and the press. He was called back to Paris to become Chief of the American Section of the Quai d'Orsay, but State Department propheteers are sure he will ultimately return as Ambassador. He is the ace of the French diplomatic service in dealing with persons who speak English or American. He speaks both to perfection-either clipped, impeccable King's English or broad, robust United States...
...ended the adventures of one of the world's most endearing elephants. Jean de Brunhoff was the creator of Babar, the elephant whose life and high times he illustrated in a series of picture books read by children the world over. Babar, his Queen Celeste, his kindly adviser Cornelius, his mischievous little cousin Arthur and his friend the Old Lady, were all invented during bed-time stories told by Artist de Brunhoff to his three little boys. Between 1932 and 1937, five Babar books were published in France, translated into English. A few months before he died...
...British A. A. A. But the U. S. bustle was about announcement No. 2. In the 1936 Olympics, U. S. colleges contributed Jesse Owens, winner in the 100 and 200 metres, broad jump, relay; John Woodruff, 800 metres; Archie Williams, 400 metres; Forrest Towns and Glenn Hardin, hurdles; Cornelius Johnson, high jump; and Earle Meadows, pole vault. When I. O. C., over U. S., British and French protests, set a date requiring athletes to be in Japan in October, commentators complained that the U. S. team would be deprived of its backbone, for by that time college athletes would have...