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...William du Font's Fairy Hill, a 14-to-1 outsider; the rich Santa Anita Derby for three-year-olds; at Arcadia, Calif.'s Santa Anita Park. Winner's take was $45,425. Mrs. Ethel Mars's Military took second & $10,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Ptolemy took third...
Advised Psychologist Carroll Cornelius Pratt of Harvard: "The crammer should be sure that he goes to sleep immediately on putting down his books; an excursion to the restaurant with a newspaper might prove to be a fatal interruption in the cramming process. . . . He should take care that there are no violent changes in his conduct or thoughts...
...daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt, granddaughter of California's late Senator James Graham Fair; and Henry Gassaway Davis III, coal scion, grandson of West Virginia's late Senator and Vice Presidential nominee, Henry Gassaway Davis, divorced last August by his new wife's cousin, Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt's daughter Grace; in the saloon of her father's $2,500,000 yacht Aha, moored at the Vanderbilt nine-acre Terminal Island, off Miami Beach...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
...Wrote Aurelius Cornelius Celsus in the 1st Century: "With us Romans these terms . . . are certainly filthy and are never employed by anyone who has a proper regard for modesty in language...