Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Name & Rank. In Norwich, Conn., a man who broke into the Veterans of Foreign Wars clubhouse and robbed the cigarette machine signed the guest book: "Burglar...
...dream of making / Tatti a humanistic-studies center for scholars of all nations. Next year Harvard hopes to begin sending up to 20 scholars at a time to the 40-room villa, which Berenson called "a library with living rooms attached," and there let them muse amid the old man's 50,000 books, his Renaissance paintings, fastidious furnishings and vast formal gardens. But carrying out the scheme, which may include endowment of a new Harvard chair, will take another...
...acted with Theda Bara and Pauline White. Newell played in the silents for three years to the delight of neighborhood wise guys, recalls: "I probably had more fights than any other kid in my end of the city." At Loyola University of Los Angeles, Newell was a three-letter man, after graduation spent an indifferent season as an outfielder in the Dodger farm system before turning to high school coaching...
...baron has been taking time-off from his three souvenir shops to run his Olympic candidates out to the ski slopes in his Studebaker. The top candidates for the three-man team are all named Kindle: Silvan Kindle, 23; his third cousin Hermann Kindle, 24; and Gebhard Kindle, 21, no kin. The Kindle Kinder train hard. Liechtenstein has no ski lifts; the husky young Olympians must hike up the steep Alpine slopes on foot. All of them work in factories, ski only on weekends. "That's the Olympic idea," says Baron von Falz-Fein. "Do sports for your pleasure...
...sightless are under God's special bless ing. There is Adolf, who endlessly rubs his eyes so that he can "see" the spray of flames that constitutes his last childhood memory of the sighted world. Author Bjarnhof sensitively captures the circular, repetitive agony of a blind man's brooding. As he makes poignantly clear, the blind feel like nature's odd men out. As a former inmate says of the sighted: "They've kept us alive, but they don't want to bother with us; we're too troublesome. They don't know...