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...Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
...careful preparation. They now fear that Kennedy may be embarking on an inadequately thought out, poorly prepared summit meeting, whose objectives are unclear and whose results will be meager. One top French official put it brutally: Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, he said, is like "fighting a championship bout after your last two sparring partners have knocked...
ALLEGHANY BOUT goes into the final round with the count about 3,300,000 common shares held by Chairman Allan P. Kirby and 2,600,000 by the Murchison Brothers. Decision on who will control the giant holding company that controls the New York Central and $3 billion in investment funds will go to side that can muster most proxies, at the May 1 annual meeting, from the remaining shares held by other stockholders...
N.Y.U. took first place in all three categories and won the team title with an astounding record of 79 wins out of bouts. Foil man Herb Cohen, in an outstanding display of endurance, ability, and consistency, lost only one bout in the two-day marathon. The top eight teams finished as follows: N.Y.U., Princeton, Columbia, Yale, Wayne State, Navy, Ohio State, and Harvard...
...Blows. Only Jean-Luc Godard seemed to stay behind, and one day he disappeared with the Cahiers' petty cash. Chabrol and Truffaut wondered if Godard was trying to finance a film. They came to his aid, the money was amicably restored, and more was honorably found. Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) went before the camera...