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Like many actors, Miller does a good deal of brooding about Fate and is fond of quoting Job to the effect that "Providence guides all the events of the world." He hasn't yet decided what last week's knockout (his first) portends. "Maybe it means I should give up boxing," he says...
WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER CHURCHILL is fond of his collection of goldfish. When he approaches their pools in the lovely grounds of his country house at Chartwell Manor in Kent, the goldfish dart eagerly toward him. Churchill, wearing his familiar siren suit, an overcoat of a peculiarly bilious pea green draped over his shoulders, was feeding them one afternoon this week. One hand held the inevitable black cigar, and the other dipped into the tin of fish food proffered by his bodyguard...
...With a Loud Sniff." Centerpiece of The Young Visiters is Mr. Alfred Salteena, "an elderly man of 42 ... fond of asking peaple to stay with him." Staying with him, in fact, when the story opens, is "quite a young girl ... of 17 named Ethel Monticue," whose "blue velvit frock had grown rarther short in the sleeves." Mr. Salteena and Ethel are at breakfast when a letter arrives from Mr. Salteena's friend, Bernard Clark, inviting him to come and stay and "bring one of your young ladies whichever is the prettiest in the face." Taking "out his blotter with...
Caldwell was and is a stalwart disciple of the single-wing offense, but throughout his own coaching career he has developed the system with fond attention to the scientific blocking and cross-checking perfected by Rockne, "the master coach of them all." This week Caldwell's coaching rivals, admirers and all other true 50-yard-liners can read his studious progress review, Modern Single Wing Football (Lippincott, $5). During the war years, relates Coach Caldwell, the T, "the oldest of the basic offensive formations . . . was exploding all over the place." But he "couldn't believe that...
Corporal Baranowski was guilty enough, but the crime he should have been tried for, as the chaplain saw it, was love. Stationed in the Ukraine, the lonely corporal had become passionately fond of a young Russian widow, Liuba, innocently tipped her off on the moves his outfit made. Condemned to a penal company, he had given his guards the slip, been recaptured and sentenced to death...