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...Brigade. Among the first was Cornelius Krieghoff, adventuring son of a Dutch wallpaper manufacturer, who fought for the U.S. in the Indian wars and then went over the hill into Canada one night when his regiment camped near the border. He had an illustrator's eye for detail which rivaled his contemporaries, Currier & Ives. The other big man of his day was Paul Kane, who may have been the real counterpart of "Langdon Towne," the painter-hero in Kenneth Roberts' Northwest Passage. To paint wilderness Indians as they really were, he accompanied a Hudson's Bay Company...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt and Newport neighbors scored a smashing victory over a junkman. For some 30 years he had been heaping his own yard with indelicate odds & ends, and he lived just a tin-can's throw from the very best people. So Mrs. Peyton J. Van Rensselaer got up a petition; Mrs. Vanderbilt and some of the other best people signed it. The junkman's yard was a fire hazard, said they. That did it. The junkman tidied up. Now it was just like the good days of 1929. That was the other time he tidied...
Back in 1939, Pan Am's directors, led by Board Chairman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, staged the first revolt. They had forced Trippe to give up some of his power, and to agree to appoint an executive vice president to take charge of Pan Am's flying operations. The peacemakers at that time were Colt and Morgan...
Chicago Round Table (Sun. 1:30 p.m., NBC). "What Progress in Cancer Research?" Speakers: Dr. Carl Moore, professor of zoology, University of Chicago; Dr. Charles Huggins, professor of surgery, U. of C.; Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads, director of Memorial Hospital for Treatment of Cancer, New York City...
Hearstlings Walter Winchell and Cholly Knickerbocker broke the news: "Her Grace" was about to remarry. The supposed groom-to-be: Charles Andrews Munroe, 71, retired midwest utilitycoon and international-setter. Almost immediately the item withered. Mrs. Vanderbilt and Son Cornelius Jr., quoted by the World-Telegram: ". . . too silly for words." Mrs. Vanderbilt, quoted by Post Columnist Earl Wilson: "It's all nonsense!" Mrs. Morin Hare, supposed matron-of-honor-to-be, to reporters: "It's fantastic . . . ridiculous . . . an outrage . . ." Mrs. Hare added: "We're taking her up to Newport...