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This canvas, valued at a million francs, had been presented to the town of Lyons many years ago by Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and subsequently had disappeared from sight. It was discovered by Mr. Harris and a British associate, Dr. Cornelius Ver Heyden de Lancey, among a pile of old rubbish in a small room in the Military School at Lyons, where it had lain unnoticed for half a century...
After he had driven his wife to a Hollywood club meeting one day last week, Cornelius Van Ness Leavitt. 57-year-old retired plumber of Santa Monica, found time heavy on his hands. He would, he decided, go and see his old friend Cliff Dailey who ran a grocery and meat store. Cliff was out at lunch when big, jovial Mr. Leavitt marched in. Later Store keeper Dailey returned and stopped to wait on a woman. Visitor Leavitt sauntered to the rear of the store. There at a sink behind a partition he found a man who looked like...
Nearly 40 years ago Cornelius Vanderbilt Sr. and his sister-in-law Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt (later Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont) fought a battle for the leadership of the Vanderbilt Clan. Their respective daughters Gertrude and Consuelo were unwilling pawns. Cornelius moved first by building an enormous renaissance palazzo known as "The Breakers," giving his gawky, good-natured daughter Gertrude a magnificent Newport coming-out party. Mrs. Willie K. countered that by marrying her quiet, handsome daughter Consuelo to Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, and giving New York the most widely discussed wedding it had ever...
...Christopher ("Bat") Battalino: a Chicago fight in which he risked his world's featherweight championship against Earl Mastro; by a decision, after ten rounds. C. Top Flight, dark brown two-year-old filly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and ridden by Jockey "Sonny" Workman: the Pimlico Futurity, her seventh race this season; raising the total of her cash winnings to $219,000, more than any other mare or any two-year-old has ever won before, more than any other race horse has won this year...
Here Goes the Bride- Cartoonist Peter Arno of The New Yorker had an exciting time in Reno last summer. There will never be other than variorum accounts of the procedure, but at some time during his residence, scrawny Cornelius ("Neely") Vanderbilt Jr. chased Mr. Arno across the landscape with an unloaded revolver. Mr. Arno included no incident quite so funny in his Here Goes the Bride, which perhaps accounted for the fact that the show went into oblivion after seven performances, together, it was understood, with a sizeable amount of money amounting to six figures belonging to John Hay ("Jock...