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...yachting: old Sir Thomas Lipton, frustrated since 1899, when Shamrock lost in the America's Cup race, was busily building the last of his challengers, Shamrock V. A new racing class, the 30-ft. Atlantic Class sloop, was hot off the drafting board of famed Designer W. Starling Burgess (Shields was to win the national Atlantic championship two years later). In the 40 ft. Mistral, Corny raced among the billowing sails of the New York Yacht Club cruise...
When Ulsterman Paul Burgess asked his mother to show him his birth certificate, she only hemmed & hawed. When Paul persisted, she sagged at the knees, confessed that his real surname was Mathry and that his "dead" father was actually serving a life sentence for killing a prostitute. Paul was stunned: he remembered his pa as a jolly fellow who cut paper boats, not ladies' throats. Afire to clear the old man, Paul hotfooted it to the English industrial town of Wortley, the scene of the crime...
...only answer in a market still upset by his 30-year bond issue of April, and congested by more than $7 billion worth of federal, state, city and corporate bonds offered so far this year-the biggest six-month total in history. Explained Humphrey's deputy, W. Randolph Burgess: "Savings money of the type you tap when you offer a long-term security accumulates slowly. You can't go to the well too often. You have to allow time for the well to fill up again...
When her ex-husband, Actor Burgess Meredith, sued in Manhattan for a $200,000 slice of what was once "community property," Cinemactress Paulette Goddard asked the Supreme Court in Manhattan for some advice. A Mexican divorce had been good enough when she divorced Charlie Chaplin, but didn't the court think that her Mexican divorce from Meredith was illegal? Couldn't she sue all over again in New York and claim that Meredith has been living in sin with his fourth wife, Dancer Kaja Sundsten...
Best Plays (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Burgess Meredith in Of Mice...