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Russell Sage College (Troy, N.Y.) Elizabeth Gray Vining, former tutor to the Crown Prince of Japan. . . L.H.D...
...connoisseur was Orson Welles, who called her "the most exciting woman in the world," cast her as Helen of Troy in a Paris production of his own version of Faust. The show traveled to Germany as An Evening with Orson Welles, was soon being dubbed "an evening with Eartha Kitt." Last year she even got a letter from Winston Churchill. She was singing...
Almost from the start the race was a spectacular, bitter duel between Troy Ruttman, driving an Agajanian Special, and Bill Vukovich, in a Fuel Injection Engine Special. Ruttman took the lead on the twelfth lap of the 2½-mi. brick and tar speedway. Vukovich, out after the $100-a-lap prize money, grabbed it back again on 13, held it to 55, when he made a fast stop for oil. Then Ruttman popped back in front. On lap No. 83, Vukovich took the lead again and Ruttman's car, a lap later, lost time fighting a fire under...
...racer at 16, burly (6 ft. 3 in., 245 Ibs.) Troy Ruttman is also the youngest (22) driver ever to win. He first hit Indianapolis three years ago, fibbed about his age (then 19) in order to qualify, and finished twelfth. A year later, he was 15th; last year he was 23rd. He had only one regret last week: the fire lost nearly two minutes, "and if it hadn't been for this I think I could have averaged 130 m.p.h...
...Engaged! She's Lovely! She Uses Pond's!" Miss Elinor Warren, 25, of Norwalk, Conn., is, as the ads say, lovely (see cut). She uses Pond's Cold Cream. And she was engaged. But two months ago, Miss Warren and her fiance, John Troy Small, decided to call...