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...present high scoring members of the team include Howland B. Stoddard '36, Richard H. Dennis '36, Clyde L. A. Sears '36, John C. Penrod '36, and Cornelius Van S. Roosevelt '37. Other members of the group are Russell S. Clymer '36, Malcolm S. M. Watts, Jr. '37, Howard A. Cook '37, Fairfield Day '36, Eoin M. Nyhen '36, Robert E. Paige '37, and Charles F. Samson...
John Adams was President of the U. S. when Jacobus Roosevelt opened his Manhattan hardware store in 1797. The hardware business flourished despite the yellow fever that plagued the city the following year and Jacobus Roosevelt took his son Cornelius into partnership. In the course of business Roosevelt & Son found it expedient to discount its customers' notes. Before long it began discounting notes of other hardware merchants. By 1824 the prospering Roosevelts were able to take a hand in founding the Chemical Bank (now Manhattan's potent Chemical Bank & Trust Co.). By 1845 a biographer, rating the Roosevelt...
...Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson passed as a patriotic gesture. Like the openings which have gone before, the Metropolitan's 1933-34 season began as a social spectacle. Chief interest seemed to be that John Pierpont Morgan was there, rabid on the subject of photographers; that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt was wearing a diamond stomacher; and that Emil Katz, the Metropolitan's caterer who during Prohibition bought William K. Vanderbilt's cellar for $70,000, was selling champagne again, for $2.50 a glass...
...over cattle on the hoof, owners of National and American League baseball teams got together in Chicago's Palmer House last week to haggle over players. When the trading was over, two men had made the biggest news: Thomas Austin Yawkey, 30, baseball's youngest tycoon, and Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 71, baseball's oldest, most famed manager. Connie Mack's news was sad, but inevitable. His Philadelphia Athletics lost $190,000 last year, and Philadelphia bankers were pressing payment of $250,000 in notes. Also some $45,000 was needed for spring training. Old Connie...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt, 78, mother of the President. In the Ritz-Carlton's Oval Room after dinner she listened to an orchestra playing gypsy music, oldtime Viennese waltzes. While younger guests danced in the main ballroom, amused themselves in cafe & casino, Mrs. Roosevelt occupied a box with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, conversed confidentially with her. Late in the evening the traditional grand march formed in the Palm Court. Wearing her favorite color, black, and escorted by bespectacled Major General Dennis Edward Nolan, Mrs. Roosevelt led the marchers in stately procession around the ballroom while some 1,000 guests looked...