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...CORNELIUS C. FELTON...
...products of its overcrowded, under staffed classrooms show up poorly when measured against national achievement norms: last year only 5% of fifth-graders and 6% of sixth-graders scored above average. Cornelius Golightly, black president of the Detroit school board, echoes Justice Marshall's concern...
...Died. Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., 76, restless offshoot of one of New York's richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...
...There is a religious nature to the ceremony you are about to witness," Master of Ceremonies Don Cornelius advised the 21,000 rowdy wedding guests assembled at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acting as if it were news to them, the mostly white crowd -who had paid $6.50 to $8.50 a ticket to watch Rock Star Sly Stone, 30, marry Actress Kathy Silva, the mother of his nine-month-old child-whistled and hooted when the preacher launched into the Lord's Prayer. The nuptials were billed as a "golden affair." Halston, the designer of the costumes, explained...
...Horse. The Barber of Seville! What is Sarah Caldwell doing with a war horse like that, when she could be scoring musicological points by dredging up, say, Cornelius' The Barber of Baghdad! She is doing what any savvy impresario would do-playing to her strength. When a loyal Caldwellite like Beverly Sills is willing to sing her first Rosina, and that master of operatic disguise Donald Gramm is equally eager to sing Bartolo, the savvy thing to do is put on The Barber of Seville...