Word: cornelius
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...DIED. Cornelius Shields, 86, prominent Wall Street banker who was known in yachting circles as the Gray Fox of Long Island Sound because of his wily ways in skippering sailboats to victories; in New Rochelle, N.Y. A teetotaler from St. Paul, Shields and his brother Paul started the Shields & Co. investment firm in 1923 that eventually became Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. Sailing was Shields' ruling passion, and the first North American sailing championship, in 1952, was one of his many triumphs. A heart attack forced him to stop racing competitively in 1956, but he returned briefly to skipper...
They are too aggressive. "They are often inexperienced, arrogant, highly individualistic operators with no patience for team effort," says Nelson Cornelius, manager of the Merrill Lynch commodities office in Chicago. Admits Dean Donald Carroll of Wharton: "Our system has a built-in tendency to reward the aggressive loner, so we get a higher number of relatively antisocial types who display a tendency not to suffer fools...
DIED. William Henry Vanderbilt, 79, farmer-philanthropist and sometime politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1938 to 1940 and was the great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th century railroad magnate; of cancer; in Williamstown, Mass...
...Manhattan banker, the stocky Trippe left Yale to become a naval aviator during World War I. In 1921 he became the manager of tiny Long Island Airways. Three years later he put together Colonial Air Transport with help from friends, including Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and William H. Vanderbilt. That airline won the first Post Office contract to deliver U.S. air mail on a route between New York City and Boston...
...Cornelius J. O'Brien, acting deputy chief of the Cambridge Fire Department, said yesterday Mabel Coney, a UHS clerk, received a telephone call at 2:05 p.m. from a man who announced that a bomb would explode on the first floor...