Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time, he had 34. By the third quarter he was up to 47, and even the most jaded fan hidden back in the smoky blue haze of Madison Square Garden was screaming like a teenager. In the fourth quarter, with teammates feeding him passes until he was arm-weary from shooting, Baylor sank 24 more points to put a rousing...
Gable liked his women to be both sacred and profane, and Carole Lombard, who in 1939 became his third wife, was close to perfection in both categories. During their courtship, when she heard that another actress had plans of her own for Gable, Carole Lombard stormed the set, told the director: "Get that whore out of this film or Gable goes.'' The rival vanished. Lombard gave her man a pure white Ford adorned with red valentines, learned to handle a shotgun so she could join him on his beloved hunting trips...
With Smiles & Songs. After the Mormons finally agreed to stop multiple marriages, Utah was admitted into the Union in 1896. Despite the limitations of monogamy, Smith has a sizable Mormon brood: eleven children, 54 grandchildren, eleven great-grandchildren. His third wife, Jessie (the first two died), is a soloist in the famed Mormon Tabernacle Choir. All the family adhere strictly to the Mormon regime of no coffee, tea or alcoholic beverage. One Brazilian jovially complained to Elder Smith last week: "The danger to the world today is not Communism, but Mormonism. You people work fast in our country with smiles...
Married. David Michael Mountbatten, 41, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of England's royal couple and best man at their 1947 wedding, who once sold electric heaters to earn a living; and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, Bermuda socialite and ex-fashion model; he for the second time, she for the first; in a London Presbyterian church. Not present: Boyhood Chum Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, whose role as the head of the Church of England prevented her attendance at the wedding of a divorced person, but who will send a gift anyway...
...Final Condition. The third story, We're Friends Again, is elegiac; Malloy is moved by the death of a meddlesome woman to reflect forbearingly on his own life and that of his acquaintances. At the end of the book, the woman's husband. Malloy's closest friend, tells him that he loved his wife deeply. "On my way home," the narrator relates, looking into the middle depths, "I realized that until then I had not known him at all. It was not a discovery to cause me dismay. What did he know about me? What, really...