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Said one listener: "I bought a straight pari-mutuel ticket: Heifetz to win, Piatigorsky to place and Rubinstein to show. I damn well lost. In music like this there could not be a winner or a loser." Said another: "You didn't know whether to shout or bow your head...
...heavy favorite, Ted Schroeder of California had no reason to be jittery, but as usual he was. As he took the court for the Wimbledon singles finals last week, he nodded awkwardly toward the royal box, where Queen Mary sat watching, instead of bending in the customary bow. Then Schroeder devoted his full attention to stocky, left-handed Jaroslav Drobny of Czechoslovakia across...
...Clara Bow, 43, "It" Girl of cinema's flapper era, better known to a later generation as radio's first "Mrs. Hush," would come out of retirement, briefly, for a stage appearance. The show: a Santa Fe straw-hat production of Personal Appearance. Her role: a man-crazy movie actress on tour. Now the wife of a rancher (ex-Movie Cowboy Rex Bell) and mother of two children, Clara was doing it strictly "for fun." A Hollywood comeback later on? Not a chance, said she: "I had my babies and I like the life in Nevada . . ." After...
...Howe will be the marriage of the year -after one of the longest engagements on record. For 18 years, Cartoonist Fisher has tantalized his readers by discovering new, insuperable obstacles to the Howe-Palooka nuptials every time the perfect lovers seem about to get hitched. This week he will bow to "popular demand" and draw the knot in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Fisher's home town. Says married & divorced Ham Fisher, who takes Palooka as seriously as his most ardent fan: "They're going to be the ideally happy couple...
Johnny Allegro (Columbia). For years, Hollywood has been concocting improbable scripts for the minor talents of George Raft. This one, more bizarre than most, casts him as a florist who becomes the target for a bow & arrow killer...