Word: cornelius
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...CORNELIUS NICHOLAS BARKER Minister The Manasseh Cutler Church (Congregational) Hamilton, Mass...
Seldom has a millionaire registered such deeply visible disappointment at not achieving another million as Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney did during a race at Louisville's Churchill Downs last week. Only one stable in U.S. turf annals has racked up such mountainous winnings in one year of racing (Calumet Farm has turned the trick six times). In Louisville, Whitney and fourth wife Mary had had high hopes of cracking the million mark with their grey filly, Bright Silver. Whitney was short of his goal by only $3,399, and the winner's purse in the race...
...Woodhull, a handsome young advocate of free love and magnetic healing, added considerable spice to the suffrage cause. With her beauteous sister Tennessee, she arrived in New York from Pittsburgh (on the orders, she said, of the ghost of the Athenian orator Demosthenes) and asked the ailing tycoon, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, for financial aid. Vanderbilt obligingly set the sisters up in a Wall Street firm of their own, Woodhull, Claflin & Co., and helped it along with friendly financial tips. He also set Tennessee up as his mistress. The firm prospered, and as a successful businesswoman, Victoria demanded equal rights with...
Mountain Mover. All the Shelburne's pieces were gathered with loving care by President Webb, who founded the museum in 1947 with her late husband, J. Watson Webb, a great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now 71, Mrs. Webb has always been a compulsive collector. "It's like being an alcoholic," she says. Her interest in collecting comes naturally: she is the daughter of the Henry O. Havemeyers, whose multimillion-dollar collection of old masters was left to the Metropolitan Museum. Her parents were baffled when Electra got interested in Americana, and at 18 collected her first item...
...truth that most newspapermen would hoot at in a barroom is one in which most of them also privately believe - that a newspaper is the soul of its city. To Cornelius Tyler, the narrator of Newspaperman Hough's dour novel, the truth is evident, and so is the fact that like other souls, a newspaper can be sold. Well into his 80s and a touch liverish, Tyler writes bitterly - but with enough sense to know why he is bitter - about the decay of a New England newspaper that he once edited, and of the deterioration of the town...