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Last week, 15-year-old Dick and his mother (who is 34) wished each other luck, then began play in the New Orleans Mid-Winter Open Tournament. Dick won the men's singles, paired to win the men's doubles, teamed with his mother to cop the mixed doubles. Lucy won the women's singles (there was no women's doubles...
Handicapped by the recent loss through draft and graduation of 100-yard man Jay Gorman and diver Pete Steffens, the Crimson managed to cop first place in four of the eight events, taking the 50, 220, and 440-yard free style and the 440-yard relay...
...succeed Beria, Stalin chose Colonel General Sergei Nikolaevich Kruglev, a baby-faced leviathan (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ib ) who looks like a cop and is one. Kruglev bossed the police detail that guarded Stalin at Yalta and Potsdam, chaperoned Molotov to San Francisco and London. At Potsdam he chain-smoked, enthusiastically bummed chewing gum from every Yank he met, consumed vast quantities of food and vodka, kept his belly shaking with laughter between mouthfuls. President Truman liked Kruglev well enough to give him an autographed picture, a Legion of Merit...
Last week in Norristown, Pa., Headmaster George W. Balles, 33, of Warminster Military Academy, was charged with rape, adultery, assault & battery, and contributing to the delinquency of minors. A cop had caught him one night in a parked car with an eleven-year-old girl, whom he is accused of raping. The girl was one of some 30 or 40 children in his school, the majority of whom had tales to tell which the District Attorney described as "the most depraved stories of immorality I have ever heard." Wife Laura Balles, 35, who described her life with Headmaster Balles...
...machine had won the first round. When the lie detector was introduced, its grim little pointer spotted surprised liars almost as soon as they opened their mouths. Hardened virtuosos who could fool a cop, a clergyman-or even a wife-were no match for the polygraph...