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After a wartime layoff, during which he served as an infantryman in the French army, Urruty went home to concentrate on pelota. By then he could whip all comers. Once one of his ardent admirers presented him with a big cigar. Deeply honored, Urruty returned the compliment. He gave his fan, Sir Winston Churchill, a chistera as a souvenir...
...wrote: "In that she is an ardent reader of TIME, I feel sure that she is going to want to have a part in selecting the $100 worth of prize." In Omaha, George M. McCulloch probably expressed the feelings of winners and losers alike after playing what turned out to be promotion's rough 5,000-to-1 shot. He wrote: "Brother...
...water behind her." But in a short two years all the romance had gone from their marriage. When Elinor confided to Clayton that a friend of his had the gall to kiss her, she was heartbroken to hear her husband chuckle. "Did he? Good old Brookie!" Clayton was ardent only for a male heir. When Elinor presented him with a second daughter, he took off for Monte Carlo in a huff and dropped ?10,000 at cards and roulette. Elinor put her seething romantic frustrations into bestsellers such as The Reflections of Ambrosine, The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (U.S. title...
...York City schoolteacher had been drifting aimlessly since his retirement 18 months ago. Then one day at the institute, "I looked out and saw the frozen pond. I realized what I had been blind to, and I wanted to paint what I saw there, to preserve it." Now an ardent painter, the ex-teacher has also been working on an invention to simplify the building of small houses. Says he of the institute: "It has opened whole vistas for me. Almost too many, in fact...
Network Member. In Long Beach, Calif., Theater Proprietor Milt Arthur discovered an ardent fan laying cables in a trench under the fence of a drive-in movie, learned that he was trying to hook them to the theater's sound system so that he could hear as well as see the movies from his nearby home...