Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Mrs. Florence Adele Vanderbilt Twombly, 94, great lady of New York's old "400," philanthropist, and last surviving grandchild of railroading Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Manhattan...
...Cornelius van Dongen was one of the original fauves (wild beasts) of modern art. Today he is one of the tamest pets of Paris. At 75, he is a dapper and well-to-do gentleman who sports a Shavian beard and has a well-appointed studio on the fashionable Rue de Courcelles. Over the past 30 years he has become the most successful portrait painter in France. His models: just about everyone from Maurice Chevalier to Queen Marie of Rumania...
...surprise may be still to come. It can be viewed as a victory of human progress or as a bitter historical joke-the joke being that when the American income tax began, the mass of American voters thought they were taking a swing at a fellow named Pierpont or Cornelius. The blow, in full and crushing measure, now lands each March 15 on the chin of a fellow named John...
...Cornelius ("Connie") Charlton was the eighth and biggest of Mrs. Van Charlton's 17 babies-he weighed 15 lbs. 8 oz. at birth-and he was a good boy from the time he could toddle. Unlike many other U.S. parents, the Charltons never thought for a moment that he would grow up to be President. The Charltons are Negroes...
Last week, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, Sergeant Cornelius H. Charlton was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. "The death of my boy," said his father, "distinctly makes a liar out of Paul Robeson and others who have said the Negro will not fight for our country. Those. . . who have felt that the Negro is a second-class citizen must know in their hearts that...