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Suffering from exhaustion, nervousness and a chronic skin disease, she has kept to herself, spending much of her time in a shrubbery-screened garden. With her are her nephew and niece, L. K. Kung and Mrs. Rosamond Chen, children of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's onetime Minister of Finance. She has four servants. Sometimes there are visitors-old American and Chinese friends, classmates from her days at Wellesley College...
...wrestle steers or score touchdowns for San Antonio's Thomas Jefferson High School (he was the state's top scorer two years ago). Then his coach said that track would help his footballing, so Perry Samuels became a sprinter-and all last year ran a close but chronic second to speedy teammate Charley Parker (TIME, May 15, 1944). This year he pared his 100-yd. time down to 9.5 sec., one-tenth off the world's record...
...from bailing out the culprit pitchers, as Ottie hoped, the hitters have flopped too. Disaster is contagious. If Ott didn't know that 37-year-old Ernie Lombardi couldn't go on hitting home runs right & left, and that 38-year-old Phil Weintraub was a chronic slumper (and a strictly minor-league first baseman), he was whistling alone in the dark...
Aside from the stars, a host of minor characters make up for some of the film's chronic dreariness. Mrs. Noosbaum, "I'm tellink mine hosband . . ." is rivalled only by John Carradine, in a ghoulish carbon copy of Ephraim Tutt sniggering while hunched over an organ keyboard and by Sidney Toler, who doffs his perennial mustache but is still Charlie Chan...
...Koestler was imprisoned there for three months, under sentence of death). There was also France's Le Vernet, Italy's Civitavecchia prison. Inmates who have been lucky enough to escape death in the Old School now wear a tie that is patterned of scars, ulcers, and a chronic condition of shakes and terror. "I dream," writes Koestler, that "I am being murdered in some kind of thicket . . .; there is a busy road at no more than ten yards distance; I scream for help, but nobody hears...