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...auction in Boca Raton, Fla., recently, a man from Lake George, N.Y., bought his daughter an unusual present for $37,000: the "Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang" car, complete with wings and propeller, used in the 1968 Walt Disney movie. In Indianapolis last year, Greta Garbo's old Duesenberg brought $95,000. In Hollywood, TV Producer Burt Sugarman recently picked up a unique addition to his collection of classic cars: a 1927 Brewster Stratford Rolls. The price...
With each passing year she became more the beloved public figure she deserved to be. There were still a few catcalls. Westbrook Pegler never stopped calling her "la boca grande," but fewer listened. In 1949 Cardinal Spellman threw an alarming tantrum over a "My Day" column opposing federal aid to parochial schools. He declared her conduct "unworthy of an American mother" but journeyed to Hyde Park personally to make peace when he realized that his fulminations were helping opposition to Catholic political candidates. Mrs. Roosevelt recorded the scene in a typical, ineffable column: "Miss Thompson came and said: 'Cardinal...
Died. Buford Ellington, 64, former Governor of Tennessee; of a heart attack; in Boca Raton, Fla. A country boy whose ambition was the Methodist ministry, Ellington became an ally of Governor Frank Clement and a power in conservative Democratic politics. After successfully managing two of Clement's campaigns, Ellington in 1959 succeeded his friend in the Governor's chair. In 1965 Lyndon Johnson appointed him Director of the Office of Emergency Planning, but Ellington served less than a year before quitting to run again, successfully, for Governor. As a favorite-son presidential candidate, he promoted Southern support...
...freighter are the Babun brothers, members of a wealthy Cuban family that settled in Miami twelve years ago. Radio Havana claimed that the Babuns are front men for the CIA and that last October the ship took part in a machine-gunning raid on the Cuban seaside town of Boca de Samá, in which several people were killed and wounded. Earlier this month the Cubans seized another Babun freighter, the Lyla Express, near Great Inagua. That ship and its crew are still in Cuba...
...squad to hard competition by sending his charges against a combination team consisting of members from the Cosmos and Hots, two of New York's best pro teams. After the game, the team will fly to Florida, spending a week practicing at St. Andrews, a prep school in Boca Raton, before checking in at the championship's headquarters in Miami's McAllister Hotel...