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Dudley boxers racked up a total of 18 points to win the title easily. The Commuters won in two other divisions, Fred Joseph decisioning John Bower of Dunster in the 135-lb. class while Morris Dratch won the 165-lb. title by gaining a decision over Stan Freedman of Eliot. Dudley also had one second-place as John DiTroia of Adams TKO'd the Dudley 125 entry, Don Tank...
...Shame!" In the National Guard Armory the air was fragrant with thousands of blossoms. Soft music wafted across the dappled, indoor, 1¾ acres, and Ike's entrance caused a mob scene. The President's first stop was at a 5O-ft. bower of white tulips, English boxwood, azaleas, dogwood and rhododendron, which had been planted in honor of Mamie and would be transplanted intact to the Eisenhower farm in Gettysburg, Pa. Ike was particularly impressed by a shoulder-high serpentine wall that enclosed the garden; he had never seen one before...
...Pyle, concerns a rash child (Actor Curtis) of the 14th century who doesn't know his own father. To find out who he is, the young man takes service as a squire with the kindly Earl of Mackworth (Herbert Marshall), quickly wins distinction with his arms-in the bower of milord's pretty daughter (Actress Leigh) as well as in the joust. In the end, Curtis clears his father's name, puts the crunch on the villain, gets the girl-and saves the state...
...most forms of animal life are architects rather than painters and sculptors, there are some creatures that indulge in purely decorative art: the bower birds of Australia. In addition to nests these happy birds build bowers of twigs and sticks, some exquisitely decorated with fern fronds, mosses and berries; the bower's sole purpose is for recreation and the entertainment of friends. The satin bower bird even paves his forecourt with shining bits of mica. But his crowning achievement is painting murals in the bower: "He collects charcoal from native hearths and, holding a strip of frayed bark...
...tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt a bit: "If I had known it was going to be so cold, I would have had the tents draped with pink mink...