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...Marx parents shifted their little store from neighborhood to neighborhood with scant success, and there were few luxuries for Louis, his elder sister Rose and younger brother Dave. "But I don't remember feeling my life was tough," says Louis. "People in Brooklyn were warm and understanding, and I learned a lot about democracy. The class struggle? Someone sold that idea. We never felt...
Time ran out with him. Army was a scant yard and a half short of its score...
Princeton's soccer team tied favored Yale, 1 to 1, Saturday in Princeton to tighten the already close Ivy League race still further. Yale retains first place with a league record of four wins, no losses, and a tie, but has only a scant edge over Harvard and Pennsylvania, tied for second with records of four wins and one loss. The Elis will oppose the Crimson Friday at New Haven, and Penn travels to Cornell the next...
Chop Off His Head. The monarchy into which Princess Margaret was born in Scotland on the stormy night of Aug. 21, 1930, was still securely bound in the tradition of Queen Victoria. But a scant six years later, it was dealt a severe blow in the abdication of vacillating King Edward VIII, now Duke of Windsor. In recent weeks, many have rushed to draw a parallel between that Crown crisis and this, but there is not much to compare in the two. Edward was the King-Emperor, the personal embodiment of the sovereign power in a Britain still governed...
...that Anatoly Vladimirovich Sofronov is a prosperous playwright as well as editor of Ogonek, one of Russia's most successful magazines, a nearby broker quickly handed Sofronov his card, just in case he wanted to invest his money. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the journalists paid scant attention to the pictures. Instead they hobnobbed with a group of sixth-graders from Brooklyn's Ethical Culture School who were being lectured on art. "This," said Polevoy, "is the way to run a museum." At Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, Foreign Affairs Expert Boris Romanovich Izakov...