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Point being, Cornelius was the man. As the years pass we must add to his teachings to remain “with the times...
...third grade there was this kid named Cornelius who moved to a Connecticut private school from D.C. He had a sick scar on his face from a riding his bike off a wall. Girls were all like, “Wow, Cornelius, your five-subject binder is enormous, will you juice me?” and Cornelius had to put them on pause like, “I’m too young for sex. I’m gonna go play Sega, holler at me when your boobs sprout...
Nowhere is Greenberg's standing more firm than in China, where the forerunner company to AIG was founded in 1919 in Shanghai by the most important figure in his career, Cornelius Vander Starr, who hired Greenberg in 1960. Even though AIG had to shut down its operations in China in 1950 after the communists took over, Greenberg never lost sight of those roots and was thrilled when his company in 1998 reclaimed one of its original offices on the Bund in Shanghai. Ahead of most, he understood the vast economic potential of China and advocated for better relations to every...
...order was too extravagant: Cartier created 27 tiaras for people attending the coronation of King Edward VII in 1902. King Farouk of Egypt had solid-gold toothpicks specially made, the family of King Edward VII ordered jeweled can openers, and W.K. Vanderbilt requested 18-karat-gold yo-yos. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt filled a cake with Cartier jewels as a birthday gift for the Prince of Wales. And a challenge from a gemstone-laden maharaja inspired the elaborate mixes known as Tutti Frutti...
Cleeta Fisher, 66, who accompanied her son Brian Fisher and his wife Virginia Cornelius to Nanchang City, China, last August to pick up their baby daughter Cornelia WenHai, recalls the poignant moment when she first met her granddaughter: "Brian and Virge were handed the baby, and they handed her to me. And I thought, 'Hello, welcome to the family.'" It was a familiar scene for Cleeta, all the more emotional because Brian is her adopted son. "I had tears of joy and flooding emotions that went back 38 years to when the adoption-agency worker placed Brian in my arms...