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Sam Cummings is a large, loquacious, twinkly man who is never very far from a joke or an ironic aside. "Human folly," he says, "guarantees the perpetuity of arms trading, the second-oldest profession in the world." Cummings, 54, is intimate with this deadly folly: he is by far the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing for Mahboob | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Indeed so: at age five, Sam Cummings, the son of a Philadelphia Main Line family, found an old German machine gun behind the local American Legion post and dragged it home. He rebuilt the gun and started collecting others. As a student on a term abroad at Oxford University, Cummings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nothing for Mahboob | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

Wives are allowed to make conjugal visits. Why not girlfriends? So reasoned Ray Cummings, 60, a murderer serving a life term at California's San Quentin Prison. When authorities turned down Cummings' request for occasional 48-hour visits from his girlfriend Susan, who is in her late 20s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: BARRING LOVE BEHIND BARS | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

En route to the crown, Bougas served up a 6-1, 6-0 shellacking of Yale's Kris DiMambro, who had defeated her in the finals of the New Englands last fall. Equally satisfying was Bougas' 6-3, 6-3 win over top seed Joy Cummings of Princeton in the...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo, | Title: Netwomen Third at Ivies; Bougas Cops Singles Title | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

Harvard also fared well at doubles in the first division. The Crimson tandem of Pe and Martha Roberts got revenge in the semis against a Yale team to whom they had lost a week ago, but then dropped a tough three-set match to Princeton's undefeated duo of Cummings...

Author: By Marcol L. Quazzo, | Title: Netwomen Third at Ivies; Bougas Cops Singles Title | 4/27/1981 | See Source »

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