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...when one Alfred Vellucci was campaigning for a post on the Cambridge Schools Committee. The strong point in his drive for election was his announced morals crusade, in which he distributed a pamplet called "Arouse Ye Citizens," signing it "Al Vellucci, Father of Six." With a larger brood to guard than most, he was intimately concerned with obscene literature, and asked that cheap and immoral books be banned from stands where children could pick them...
...telephone calls. He is sharp of eye and of mind, has a square jaw and a balding head, holds his middle-sized frame ramrod straight. A horseman and hunter, he has fine stables at his 150-acre estate in Lake County, 24 miles out of Cleveland, a stable of brood mares at Lexington, Ky., a training stable at Charlottesville, Va., and a plantation complete with game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. He rides to the hounds, shows his horses, is a member of the exclusive (50 members in the U.S.) Jockey Club. He is a vestryman of St. Hubert...
...Przewalski horses have few characteristics of the tarpan, so Dr. Heck brought mares from Iceland and Gotland. Surprisingly like tarpans in skull and build, the mares were bred to Przewalski stallions. Although none of the original brood mares was grey, when crossbred mares were bred to crossbred stallions, they occasionally produced tarpanlike, mouse-grey foals. By discarding the foals that inherited Przewalski heads, by selecting a color here, a skull shape there, working always to reproduce the most backward characteristics, Dr. Heck finally got a herd of horses with tarpan build and the typical tarpan color...
Dearborn Advice. Just before war came, Lulu married Grand Duchess Kira, one of the last of the Romanovs. Through the war, they lived mostly on the family's East Prussian farm with their growing brood of princes and princesses (there are seven of them now). In 1940, when brother Wilhelm was killed in action in Flanders, Lulu became the Hohenzollern heir in his stead. In 1944 he barely escaped the Russian advance, and almost got nabbed by the Nazis too for knowing a thing or two (not much more) about the bomb plot on Hitler's life...
...daily verbal sparring-usually before breakfast. But they faced the world stoutly and together-a world which consisted for years of drafty old houses (once the family lived in a tent) and endless peregrinations in search of work (Ma always bought just one railroad ticket, sent her big brood scurrying off through the train to hide in the lavatories...