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...Before the war, little Teruel was known chiefly as the home of Spain's Romeo & Juliet, the lovers Juan de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura who died of grief in the 13th Century, whose remains were put on view in the Church of San Pedro; there they remained last week still undamaged by shell fire. Most famed drama on their tragedy is Los Amantes de Teruel, by the Spanish son of a German cabinetmaker, Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch...
...when 14 teams met in well-ballyhooed post-season games. Six were Bowl games, a unique U. S. institution founded for the purpose of publicizing southern winter resorts. The seventh was a game for charity, between picked players from Eastern and Western colleges.* played at San Francisco for the 13th year for the benefit of the Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children...
...Patterson, 20, was haled before Magistrate Fisher for speeding, the jurist sentenced the youth to attend Sunday School for 13 weeks. On 13 Mondays, Speeder Patterson repeated the text of the Sunday School lesson in Magistrate Fisher's chambers. Five days after he had delivered his 13th report to the gratified magistrate, who by that time had received many a letter praising him for his enlightened act, Speeder Patterson was again brought into court, this time charged with drunken driving...
Most women golfers good enough to try for the U. S. championship are persistent matrons like Mrs. Opal Hill of Kansas City, who was playing in her 13th national tournament last week, or enthusiastic youngsters like Patty Berg. Mrs. Page, 29, is neither. Wife of an accountant in Greensboro. N. C. she first took up golf for her health, has played only six years...
...medieval stained-glass humor in the U. S., Willet has very serious theories on window designing, which he regards as nearer to music than painting. He prefers the 12th Century masters who used large pieces of glass in the primary colors, simply juxtaposed, rather than designers of the 13th Century, who broke up their glowing blues and reds in complex patterns at the risk of purplish vibrations of light. "Purple addles your brain," Henry Willet says...