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Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
...cars, slashed the price of the Austin automobile from $1,595 to $1,275, trimmed all other makes 20%. Rolls-Royce dealers trimmed that $20,000 job to $15,000. Dunhill's also jumped aboard, cut British pipes and cigarette cases 20%. The prices of British wool, rubber, cocoa and other commodities from sterling areas slumped on New York exchanges...
...Twelve-year-old Jackie Lillie of Kinsman, Ohio sold his sorrel pony, Cocoa, to pay for his mother's funeral. At a horse sale in Jamestown, Pa., buyers returned Cocoa to Jackie with an extra...
...campus news and cracker-barrel advice ("The hills are changing color again. Be sure to look"). He still holds Sunday vespers, beaming when the boys sing "real loud." In campus affection he has only one rival: his wife Helen, who teaches chemistry and algebra, and is always ready with cocoa when boys drop around...
...million people are the descendants of Portuguese sugar fazendeiros, African slaves, savage Indians and immigrants from around the world. They include the hard-riding gaúchos of the temperate Rio Grande do Sul pampas; the sickly Indian rubber-gatherers of the steaming Amazon; the sugar-and cocoa-raising nordestinos of the states of Baía and Pernambuco on the Bulge; the driving industrialists of São Paulo...