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Jaime's family has scrimped and saved to keep him in catgut. His father padded out an annual $600 allowance, given Jaime by the Bolivian government, with jobs as a theater usher, truck driver and (currently) laboratory clerk in a Philadelphia hospital. The trip to Brussels was made possible by the sale of the family's baby grand, plus a $250 gift from the Cleveland Society for Strings and the loan of a $40,000 Stradivarius. Jaime's victory brought him $3,000 in prize money. He is now concertizing in Belgium, and will soon start practicing...
Auburn-haired, athletic, with brilliant, hypnotic eyes and a prominent nose and chin, Aimee sometimes looked more like a female impersonator than a woman. She had been married twice-to Holy Roller Missionary Robert Semple, who died in China, and to U.S. Grocery Clerk Harold McPherson, whom she divorced-and had a child by each marriage. At her flamboyant services, surrounded by choirs, bell ringers and 80-piece xylophone bands, Aimee most often preached in filmy white celestial robes but occasionally acted out liturgical tableaux dressed as a policeman, fireman or fisherman. Her carelessness about money was sternly held...
Councillor Edward A. Crane did not attend the meeting, as he reportedly has chicken pox. Councillor Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler also absented herself. City Clerk Frederick H. Burke is in Miami Beach. Ex-Councillor Hyman Pill arrived shortly after the meeting closed...
...three slips, each bearing the name of a candidate for the office of "Most Holy Father and Patriarch of the great city of Alexandria and of all Egypt . . . and of all the places where St. Mark preached." The choice: Mina al Baramoussi, born Azer Yousef Atta, sometime clerk at Thomas Cook's travel bureau and a renowned priest known to his followers as "The Solitary...
...became a bona fide hero, killing dozens of Japanese-so he could collect souvenirs from their bodies. Then there was Lieut. Peter Claver Kenton, a delightful dipsomaniac with a habit of absenting himself from duty to work part time as a bowling-alley pin boy and as a desk clerk in a whorehouse...