Word: craig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Daily Double. In Seattle, Dorene A. Craig, 25, took out two marriage licenses in one day, explained that she quarreled with the first man, replaced him with the second...
...Schenectady, N.Y. 78 Woolley, Clark H. '61 20 6:1 211 Wilmington, Del. GUARDS 65 Allgaier, Glen R. '62 19 5:11 170 Arlington, Va. 64 Baldwin, Stanley S. '61 20 6:0 204 Marshfield, Wisc. 63 Bates, Barry T. '60 21 5:9 183 Laureldale, Pa. 74 Craig, John C. Jr. '62 20 6:0 190 Tulsa, Okla. 69 Loftus, Gary M. '61 19 5:9 179 E. Cleveland, Ohio 60 Norton, Gerald P. '61 19 5:11 180 Baldwin, N.Y. 67 Shaughnessy, Stanley '60 21 6:0 188 N. Tarrytown, N.Y. 61 Tobriner, Matthew...
...Craig Price, the financier hero of Robert Ruark's new novel, makes such a point of drinking, uttering menaces, shooting lions and helling about with women, that one suspects him of wearing a toupee-all that chest hair can't be real. At any rate, he is a standard literary article -the poor boy who gouges his way to wealth. The author's account of the gouging has its moments, but doggedly lumped together, they become hours...
...born in Wilmington, N.C.) and gets his schooling at Chapel Hill, where he becomes involved with bootleggers (Ruark says he had "a connection with Texas Guinan's brother, who had a connection in New Jersey"). After that, the author departs from his own life story and builds Craig Price into a villain who marries for money, fires his secretary-mistress and his best friend in a deal with a racketeering unionist, and beggars countless widows and orphans in a stock fraud-all without altering his own good opinion of himself. The odd thing is that Author Ruark seems...
...comeuppance arrives-wine, women and the SEC have made him a pauper-the reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich he'd be if he owned anything except the million dollars waiting for him in Switzerland...