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Omitted from this year's New York Social Register are: Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr., author of Farewell to Fifth Avenue; Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz; Mrs. Marjorie de Loosey Oelrichs Duchin, wife of Band Leader Edward Frank ("Eddy") Duchin; Henry Huddleston Rogers III, at whose Downingtown, Pa., farmhouse Torchsinger Evelyn Hoey was shot dead...
...Last week a group of New York businessmen formed a new company. Among the incorporators were: Winthrop W Aldrich, Paul D, Cravath, Matthew Woll, Nelson A. Rockefeller, David Sarnoff, Jackson E. Reynolds, Ogden L. Mills, Owen D. Young, Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Walter C. Teagle, Myron C. Taylor, Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, Newcomb Carlton, Percy S. Straus, Clarence M, Woolley, Frederick H. Ecker, Edward S. Harkness, Joseph P. Day, F. Trubee Davison, George Le Boutillier, Henry Morgenthau Sr., Henry S. Morgan, Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Walter P. Chrysler, James G. Blaine, Charles Hayden, Charles E, Hughes Jr., Harry Harkness...
...four unsavory titans of 19th Century Wall Street, by far the meanest and most rascally was Daniel Drew (1797-1879), who was now with, now against rough "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, flamboyant James Fisk, piratical Jay Gould. Born on a farm near Carmel, N. Y., Dan Drew enlisted in the War of 1812, became a cattle drover, later a cattle trader. Sharp-witted, grasping, unscrupulous, he was credited with inventing the "watering" of stock. This trick to up the weight of cattle just before a sale consisted of feeding the animals salt and then giving them all the water they could...
...reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three-out-of-five series in which the challenger was Norna IV, Crown Prince Olav of Norway's sleek new six-metre boat, sailed by his friend Magnus Konow. The defender, which bore the confusing name of Challenge, was sailed by Cornelius Shields...
...Addis Ababa last week, Ethiopian courtiers told correspondents that their Emperor was angrily rebuking U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Cornelius Engert inside the Royal Palace...