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Experts agree there is little hope of heading off the Yankees in the American League. Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), Philadelphia's oldtime practitioner, has virtually the same team that proved unequal to the task last year. Other teams have improved but probably not enough. The American League has two new managers who may stir new interest. Walter Johnson, long venerated pitcher (now retired) of the Washington Senators is now in charge of the team. Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, whom he replaced, has taken over the Detroit team...
Other articles were by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and George M. Pynchon Jr., two of the East's more advanced amateurs. Royal Dixon, imaginative naturalist, exposed the flight methods of eagles, kites, pelicans and buzzards. The tenor of the whole magazine was calculated to encourage more people to buy more planes, to make the grass grow green upon the lawns of aviation country clubs. In the West, where amateur flying is already pretty much a matter of course, The Sportsman Pilot may seem precious. In the East it should help the air to become fashionable and populous...
...Your Head. . . ." French mannequins this year have dropped exaggerated posturing, are seeking to resemble la type Americaine introduced in 1924 by Jean Patou when he imported a dozen U. S. young women and an English brunette now famed as the actress June. Nephew Erskine Gwynne of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt promptly snatched and married in Paris svelte Patou mannequin Josephine Armstrong...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney motored up from the Bath and Tennis Club into the heart of Palm Beach last week, and lunched pajama-clad in a public restaurant...
...Died. Cornelius P. ("Con") Shea, 55, famed & robust Chicago labor racketeer, onetime dump cartman, onetime President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters; after an operation for gall stones; in Chicago. In 1905 Racketeer Shea led a four months' strike of Chicago teamsters. Twenty-one were killed, 416 injured, 4,620 idle. Cost to the union: $1,050,000. Estimated cost to employers...