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Died. Erskine Gwynne, 49, dilettante Paris publisher of the expatriate era; after long illness; in Manhattan. A great-nephew of the late Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, he brought out the Paris Boulevardier in 1927, attracted to the magazine such contributors as Michael Arlen, Noel Coward, Ernest Hemingway...
...Institute, in the world's biggest institution for cancer research, showed visiting cancer specialists through the well-equipped laboratories. Said one biologist, who spotted a coffeepot heating over a Bunsen burner: "That's one piece of apparatus we're sure will work." But Dr. Cornelius P. ("Dusty") Rhoads, head of the Institute and of the affiliated Memorial Hospital, was more hopeful. Said he: "No one can predict from what source a major discovery will come. One can predict, however, with absolute certainty, that sound, careful, faithful investigation will justify itself in terms of progress...
Consequently, 15 sophomores and first term junior geography concentrators will have to switch fields as they won't find enough courses to complete their degree requirements after June 1949, Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., chairman of the Committee on Degrees for the Geological Sciences, disclosed last night...
Identification of minerals by X-ray analysis of their atomic structure will make the University's Berman Memorial Laboratory the world's "most complete reference library" of mineral photographs within a year, Clifford Frondel and Cornelius S. Hurlburt, Jr., associate professors of Mineralogy and directors of the laboratory, announced yesterday...
...Enfant's eye. This week Washington's National Gallery proudly exhibited "its first full-length portrait from Van Dyck's English period." The portrait, a sparkling evocation of the foppish Duc de Guise, was a New Year's gift from New York Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. That made the 1,019th painting the National Gallery has been given since it opened its doors in 1941 (it has only found it necessary to buy one painting in that time). It also clearly established the National Gallery's Van Dyck collection (14 paintings) as the world...