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...Grey-haired, bespectacled Washoe County District Court Judge Grant L. Bowen, 63, sat in his chambers and peered out the window into Reno's Virginia Street, hoping to catch a glimpse of the arriving plaintiff. "This is a great break for Reno," he said to New York Daily News Correspondent Bill Berry. "It may mean Alabama-bound divorce seekers will come here again...
...musicals composed by undergraduates but possessing few other virtues once nearly drove Grant-in-Aid out of business. Now they have settled for the solider stuff of Broadway musicals; they sponsor an auction of things forgotten and unclaimed; they even (alas) run the freshman mixer. Held against the grey formality of the Financial Aids Office, their fund looks filled with life and color; it is eminently worth preserving...
...church law to go to confession at least once a year* - and he has already been more than a year in office. For Catholics. non-Catholics, and any who feared that a Catholic President might try to resolve the nation's problems with the help of some unknown grey eminence in a confessional box, the fascinating speculation is: What would the Presidential confessor reply if such questions were asked? In his own answer. Father Reedy suggested that non-Catholic fears have been misplaced. " On all these questions," he said at the annual Wisconsin Catholic Action Convention, "my advice...
Shoemaker quickly found that practice was as important as poundage. He spent three years learning fundamentals: breaking yearlings, mucking out stalls, exercising colts in the chill grey dawn. When he finally earned his spurs in 1949, Shoemaker was an immediate success: in his first season, he rode 219 winners; the next year he tied Joe Culmone for the national title with 388. Though he had ridden many good horses, Willie never got a great one until 1954, when he won the mount on Rex Ellsworth's Swaps. This year he is contracted for two of the best: the colt...
...Battle, by Evelyn Waugh. Part three of a trilogy about Britain in Waughtime, how an upper-class way of living and dying turned grey when the Russians became Britain's allies...