Word: catch-as-catch-can
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Divorced. Blonde Valerie Brooke Gregory ("Princess Baba"), 24, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak; by Wrestler Bob Gregory, 28, onetime claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can title; after three married years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: "She is always somewhere else...
...Senators and Representatives, only two are now close to the President. They are: South Carolina's canny, catch-as-catch-can Senator Jimmy Byrnes; Texas' steady, durable Sam Rayburn. Nebraska's Norris has slowed with age; Wisconsin's La Follette is too isolationist (and for that reason may not have the badly needed support of the White House in his race for re-election this fall). Among the so-called New Deal "militants" in the Senate (Minton, Lee, Pepper, Wagner) not one has the force & fury to attract Franklin Roosevelt. But there is another...
...Agile thumbs and 85? had carried them all the way from Florida after MacArthur's uncle, prankish Cinemauthor Charles MacArthur, offered them a trip to California if they got to Manhattan on $2 and wangled free lodging from a top-flight New York hotel. After a week of catch-as-catch-can meals and flophouse nights, the Hotel Astor offered them a room. Said Boyd France to inquiring newshawks: "How vivid a story of our adventure do you want? I got an imagination...
...past seven years it has become a national institution. By last Saturday night, when as usual its 1,200 seats had been filled and emptied by two consecutive paying audiences, no fewer than 860,013 people had given 35 to 75? to get in and watch a freestyle, catch-as-catch-can radio show on a stage representing a hayloft. Station WLS's Barn Dance is a corny five-hour jamboree, radio's longest* and oldest in continuous operation, tops in Crossley ratings in its class. Last week this program, begun a week after Station...
...rate, a touring, Lithuanian-born U. S. wrestler named Carl Pojello met him in Singapore in 1936 in Le Laurier bar. One handshake was enough for Pojello. He took the Angel to Paris, taught him all he knew about the U. S. catch-as-catch-can, or British "all-in," wrestling business. Since then, in 140 matches in six countries, according to uncontradicted reports, the Angel has been unbeatable...