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...attention has just been called to a news story in the Boston Post of July 13th, in which it stated that the editors of your magazine announced that "girlie magazines" are far ahead in the spare time reading habits of Harvard students. As publisher of the six most popular girlie books in the field, the results of your survey were most gratifying to me, since it adds weight to several theories I have evolved on this subject...
...rains were still coming when he began an at-home vacation on July 8, dampened his "already ghastly" golf game. By Friday the 13th the Kansas River (called "the Kaw" by Clark and other natives) had broken all records, roared over levees into two city districts. Assistant City Editor Paul Miner woke Clark at 6 o'clock that morning, asked him to "get the hell down to the office as fast as possible." An hour later, Clark was back at work on the flood story...
When Cellist Pablo Casals staged a Bach festival in the French Pyrenees town of Prades last year, he did not so much come out of retirement as invite others to join him in it. Last week, playing in the airy courtyard of Perpignan's 13th Century Palace of the Kings of Majorca, Casals was really out in the open. He made a 30-mile move from Prades to more accessible Perpignan; fellow musicians and some 2,000 music lovers made global pilgrimages to hear...
Died. The 13th Earl of Home, Charles Cospatrick Archibald Douglas-Home, 77, head of the Scottish clan of Home, wealthy landowner, host to Neville Chamberlain upon the late Prime Minister's return from his "Peace for Our Time" meeting with Hitler; of a heart attack; in Coldstream, Scotland...
...eleventh round, the strategy shifted. Robinson stood his ground, purposely absorbed the best punches a tiring LaMotta could throw. Satisfied that LaMotta was no longer dangerous, Robinson moved in for the kill. It never quite came off. In the 13th the referee stopped the fight with LaMotta beaten to a pulpy mass of bruised flesh, his championship lost by a technical knockout...