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...mysterious Woman in Black who made a pilgrimage to the tomb of Screen Lover Rudolph Valentino each year on the anniversary of his death; by her own hand (sleeping pills, on her seventh attempt); in Hollywood. She claimed to have gone dancing with Valentino the night he was fatally stricken with an attack of peritonitis and gastric ulcers, afterwards made the headlines by announcing that they had been married and were the parents of a baby girl. Later she did marry 1) a Hollywood golf writer (it lasted a day), 2) a wealthy baron, 3) a doctor. Of her tendency...
...preparations for dinner began at 6:30 p.m. and it was 9 p.m. before we could sit down to eat. "I've only been in this racket for a couple of weeks," Al whispered. The somewhat awe-stricken guests sat down without a word...
Officials at Mount Auburn Hospital said last night that Rafael Demos '19, professor of Philosophy, has been "resting well for the past few days, and his condition is good." Last Wednesday, Demos was stricken with a heart attack, described by doctors as "a comparatively mild...
...later board of Princeton trustees referred to Belcher as "the Founder patron, and benefactor of the college" but the good Governor may have doubted the value of his project when he was stricken with palsy at the Princeton Commencement of 1750. He died soon afterward, but not before leaving strict orders that he be buried in Cambridge and that his two sons be sent to Harvard...
...Born in Russia, the eldest son of a poverty-stricken family, he now bosses RCA's thousands of employees and directs the battle being waged with CBS over color television...