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Divorced. Billy Rose, 65, bantam Broadway entrepreneur and biggest single A.T. &T. stockholder (160,000 shares worth $11 million); by Doris Warner Vidor, 48, heiress to Hollywood's Warner Bros, fortune; on grounds of mental cruelty; after six months of marriage (his fifth); in Reno...
Gauguin talked taller than he stood. Actually, he was a little (5 ft. 4 in.) bantam of a man. But he walked Pont-Aven's streets with a nautical swagger, his great jut of a nose tilted in the air, looking like an evangelist pirate captain. He spouted maxims: "A line is colour, since it can only be born from the contour of spaces," or "The ugly can be beautiful, the pretty, never." To his wife, who was supporting the five children at her family's home in Copenhagen, he sent periodic sermons defining his new position...
...most dramatic part of the plan was a request to the U.S. to send additional military equipment to the U.N. Congo force. The U.S. responded last week by naming Lieut. General Louis W. Truman, 54, a bantam, 150-lb. West Pointer (and second cousin of Harry S Truman) as head of an eight-man mission to weigh the U.N.'s arms needs. Seven of the eight are members of a top-drawer planning group called JTF4 (for Joint Task Force 4), set up in 1961 to chart long-range military contingency plans for sub-Saharan Africa. As General Truman...
...lack of high school facilities, all of the better caliber hockey playing takes place outside the high schools in amatour leagues, where subsidies for team equipment and ice practice time are more readily available. In Canada players from eight to 16 players participate on either Mosquito, Pee Wee, Bantam, or Midget teams. From this lower level of the hookey anarchy those players who are good enough to withstand the stiff competition graduate to the Juvenile ranks, in which they may remain until they reach...
Wallace, a onetime state Golden Gloves featherweight champion ("The Barbour Bantam"), campaigned on a segregationist platform that seemed extreme even by Alabama standards. The federal judiciary, he claimed, is "lousy and irresponsible." U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr., who once ordered voting records turned over to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, was an "integrating, scalawagging, carpetbagging liar." Promising that he would refuse to obey "any order to mix races in our schools," Wallace offered to "stand in the schoolhouse door," and, if need be, go to jail before permitting integration. To suggestions that his position might be too strong...