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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...asked the court to declare her his legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily admitted that he had discussed the "present suit" with Miss Starr. "I told her [Jean] that the plaintiff [Esther] thought there were a few drops in the orange [Louis] left to squeeze, and that...
...came out of the gate-the first time Citation had ever been whipped away from the post. But it was Bolero that set the pace, and Citation trailed him around the first turn and into the backstretch. It was a jet pace. Though the times did not count as official, Bolero was under the world records for five and six furlongs on the ultra-fast track.* Even so, he could not shake the Calumet colt...
...Golden Gate is the fastest track in the U.S. World records set there: six furlongs, Bolero, 1:08 1/5; 1 1/16 mile, Count Speed, 1:41; 1 ⅛ mile, Shannon II, 1:47 3/5; 1 ¼ mile, Shannon...
...Charles X, who reigned from 1824 to 1830, was the last of the Bourbon descendants of Louis XIV to rule France. Forced into exile by the revolution of 1830, he relinquished his throne to his grandson, the Comte de Chambord. The proud count, however, refused to recognize the tricolor of constitutional monarchy, and refused to be king unless France adopted the lily-white ensign of the Bourbons. The throne passed to Louis Philippe, descendant of Louis XIII's second son, the Due d'Orleans...
...later, the happiness turned to ecstasy when gladder news arrived from Texas. At Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, the message said, a precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane, the first ever born in captivity. Thus, according to the most respected count, there were 38, not 37, survivors of the once numerous breed of whooping cranes...