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...Arcadia, Calif., longshot (10-1) Moonrush, the $100,000 Santa Anita Handicap, by a neck over Next Move. ¶In Hialeah, Fla., Yildiz, the $50,000 Flamingo Stakes for up & coming three-year-olds, by a neck over Timely Reward. ¶In Grand Junction, Tenn., Paladin, a white and liver pointer, the National Bird Dog Championship, after nine days of hang-tongue competition...
William D. Rockne, 35, son of Notre Dame's late, famed Football Coach Knute Rockne, was taken to a Wichita, Kans. hospital with bullet wounds in his liver, lung and heart. Police said young Rockne, who spent three years in a mental institution in the '30s, was shot trying to break into the house of a wealthy used-car dealer...
...charity ward of San Francisco Hospital last week a reporter found a wasted, melancholy man who had once tootled with the top jazz men in the land. Now, his money all spent, his liver almost gone from years of lost weekends, famed Hot Clarinetist "Pee Wee" Russell still had "a chance to live," the doctors said...
Rubens, who was fond of the picture himself, once described it more modestly in a letter offering it for sale to a 17th Century collector: "A Prometheus bound on Mount Caucasus; with an Eagle which pecks his liver. Original, by my hand, and the Eagle done by Snyders.* Nine feet high by eight feet wide." Rubens' asking price was also modest: 500 florins (about...
...every drink that Chaim Soutine refused, Jules Pascin downed twelve. Ulcers did not bother him, though his overworked liver did. In 1930, when he was 45, it became clear that his liver would soon give out altogether. Pascin slashed his wrists, wrote "Lucy, pardonnez-moi" in blood on the wall, and, for good measure, hanged himself. The girl friend of the message, Lucy Krogh, subsequently opened an art gallery. Last week she staged a retrospective show of Pascin's paintings and drawings...