Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LONGEST DAY (350 pp.)-Cornelius Ryan-Simon & Schuster...
...position; and he was to keep muttering through that fateful invasion day, as he rushed back to Normandy: "How stupid of me, how stupid of me." It is the number of fortuitous errors and outright bungles on the German side that lends fascination and suspense to Author Cornelius Ryan's reconstruction of The Longest Day. Author Ryan, onetime senior writer for Collier's, has dug assiduously into the histories, war diaries and personal recollections of all the D-day fighters he could find on either side, in a full two years of interviewing. As a result, the familiar...
Yachtsman Cornelius Shields, "the grey fox of Long Island Sound"). Both Suzy and Shields had slipped out of Paris-quietly, deftly, on the sunny side of discreet. "Suzy is just taking a vacation," said her French husband, who has been seeing her now and then. "Ah oui," said the gossips knowingly. Meanwhile, sentimental fans remembered Suzy as the young heroine of Ten North Frederick, who responds to the passion of her roommate's father, Gary Cooper. And, coincidentally, Actor Cooper, 58, is the real-life son-in-law of Paul V. Shields...
Nominee Burden is a great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, made a fortune in his own right -after graduating from Harvard ('27) and studying aviation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology-as an aviation-securities specialist in Wall Street. As Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Air (1943-47), Burden specialized in Latin American air transportation problems, was a close associate of Presidential Assistant Nelson Rockefeller. As Special Assistant for Research and Development to the Secretary of the Air Force (1950-52), Burden laid the groundwork for his appointment by President Eisenhower last May to the blue-ribbon National Aeronautics...
...years after Cornelius Packard Rhoads graduated from Harvard Medical School ('24, cum laude), there was little in his life to suggest that his name would become synonymous with cancer research. Son of a Springfield (Mass.) ophthalmologist, young Dr. Rhoads took his internship under Boston's great Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing, then went to New York's Trudeau Sanatorium (TIME, Dec. 6,1954), Adirondack Mountain headquarters for tuberculosis research and treatment. After a Boston stint in pathology, Dr. Rhoads joined Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute, studied immunity to poliomyelitis. The institute sent him to the tropics to work...