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...play a piece blindfolded, or standing on one leg. Gabriel students also play musical Truth or Consequences, in which one penalty is standing on the head to sing God Bless America. Gabriel sometimes reverses the lesson, plays student to the pupil's teacher. Says he: "It purges the kid of hostility...
Venus Observed. No one could survive two Hollywood marriages unchanged. When she married Rooney, Ava was still a slightly chunky, giggling kid who would playfully scuffle with Mickey on the living-room floor; by the time of her divorce from Shaw, she had grown sleeker, more self-possessed. She had also become tougher, more aggressive. She began to get better parts (The Killers, The Hucksters'). To go out with Ava began to be considered a distinction. She began figuring as the heroine of many a Hollywood anecdote...
...leading contenders for a crack at Light Heavyweight Champion Maxim is Seattle Boxer Harry ("Kid") Matthews, who has squabbled for months with New York's International Boxing Club (TIME, July 9). Last week the deadlock was finally broken when the I.B.C. offered him a larger cut of the television percentages. I.B.C. Boss Jim Norris offered Matthews a bout in Chicago (an I.B.C. city) on Oct. 3, which had to be turned down because of Matthews' previous commitments. But it looked as though Matthews (who gave Irish Bob Murphy a resounding beating last March) would finally get his chance...
...Yellow Kid. By 1895, having perfected his techniques of carnival journalism, he felt ready to conquer Manhattan. He had $7½-million with him, and he was ready to bet it all on his new paper, the Morning Journal. One day Hearst rocked Pulitzer by buying away the entire Sunday staff of his World-including Morrill Goddard, who was to steer the blatant American Weekly toward the world's biggest circulation with such stories as NAILED HER FATHER'S HEAD TO THE FRONT DOOR. From then on W.R.'s Journal outplayed the World at its own scare...
...wonderful kid," said Claire Young's father last week. With just a trace of his native brogue, Professor James Young of Chicago's Loyola University told how he used to take his only child to summer concerts in Grant Park. "She used to be happiest when she was listening to classical records and singing with them," he said. "She had girl friends, but wouldn't go out with boys. We would encourage her to go to dances, but she never wanted...