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Died. Mrs. Thomas Hitchcock Sr., 68, matriarch of U. S. polo; of complications resulting from a fall from a horse three months ago; in Aiken, S. C. Mrs. Hitchcock taught polo to her famed son "Tommy," trained among other players Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, Douglas Burden. An indomitable rider, she was acknowledged one of the most gallant sportswomen...
...21st annual international flower show in Manhattan J. Pierpont Morgan won a gold medal for his tropical Kalanchoe globulifera coccinea; Mr & Mrs. Marshall Field, first prizes for their mignonettes, larkspur, stock: Mrs. Cornelius Francis Kelley, a first with twelve white Antirrhinum spikes...
...follows: chairman, Robert S. Hurlbut '34; treasurer, John F. Madden '34; secretary, Paul J. Wolfer '34; members from the Military Science Department, John R. Canavan '34, James H. Dixon '35, J. Edward Downes '35, Thomas H. Edmands '36, William B. Emmons '37, Robert Lowe '34, John J. Maloney '36, Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt '37, John B. Rowland '36; members from the Naval Science Department, F. Stanton Deland, Jr. '36, Benjamin S. Foss, Jr. '35, Andrew E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, and Richard Stackpole...
...greatest of its kind in the world. It was bequeathed three years ago by the late Lizzie P. Bliss on condition the Museum raise an endowment fund of $1,000,000 (TIME, May 25, 1931). This sum was subsequently reduced to $750.000 by Lizzie's brother, Cornelius Newton Bliss (Metropolitan Museum of Art trustee and Metropolitan Opera director). Last week the Museum announced that its endowment fund had reached $600.000, that Brother Cornelius had accepted this as earnest of another $150,000 to be forthcoming. Thus did the Museum become permanent owner of the Bliss collection. Large single donor...
Arrested in South Windsor. Conn, for speeding while driving the car of his cousin Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., Robert B. Delano jumped his $20 bail. In Worcester. Mass. Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, was arrested for speeding, paid a $5 fine...