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...framed copy of Burt's The Real Victim, a tearful protest against domestic discord, had been hung by Judge Cornelius Harrington just inside his courtroom in the Cook County circuit court. Last week, when a pretty blonde named Lorraine Eliasen, 25, appeared in court with her husband seeking temporary alimony pending trial of her separate-maintenance suit, Judge Harrington thought that the Eliasens looked ripe for the poetic treatment. He called the couple into his chambers, told them what a "beautiful-looking couple" they were and what a "gorgeous-looking boy" little five-year-old Roy was. Says Harrington...
Moreover, to a good many sailors, simply messing about in boats, charming as it is, is not enough. They take their competitive instincts to the water with them. Such a man is Cornelius Shields, 58, a Wall Street stockbroker better known as "Corny"; also sometimes known (by the competitors he has beaten) as the grey fox of Long Island Sound...
What a Sailor Must Learn. Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though...
Divorced. By Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 55, sometime journalist, scion of Manhattan society's reigning family: his fifth wife, Patricia Murphy Wallace Vanderbilt, 33; after almost five years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Newport-to-Annapolis ocean race, the 73-ft. yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed...