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Bass Instinct. Near Whiteville, Tenn., Fisherman William Dower reported an attack: he was fishing peacefully when a large bass leaped from the water, knocked off his glasses, struck him on the temple, gashed him with a fin, victoriously dove back...
Early in his Hollywood career, the town gossips began dividing Hughes's women friends into two classes: 1) the established celebrities-Billy Dove, Lana Turner, Linda Darnell, Bette Davis, Gloria Baker, Ruth Moffett, et al.-with whom he was seen in public; and 2) the young, eager and not too prudish unknowns with whom he was almost never seen in public. Hughes has a harsh word for the latter: he calls them "crows." But even from them he fears a rebuff. It is part of Meyer's job to see that the green light is up before Hughes...
Last week a dove of peace shuttled hopefully between the Israeli and Arab capitals. It was a white Dakota plane, with red crosses painted on the wings and body. The wings also bore, in bold, black letters, the words "United Nations" in English and French. The plane's principal passenger was 53-year-old Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, president of the Swedish Red Cross and U.N. mediator for Palestine. His mission was to win Jewish and Arab acceptance of a cease-fire agreement...
...weather was warm. Streams were rounding into form and trout were biting. In crowded Manhattan, this generation's Dead End Kids performed summer's immemorial rite and dove into the East River (see cut). Baseball was going full blast and the sports fiends had a startling topic of conversation-old Connie Mack had his A's up on top after 17 years in cold storage. The hammock season was almost here. Just at the moment, it looked like a beautiful morning...
...completed the 75-yard stint, which required almost a minute and a half, but when he rose to the surface for air he was unable to breathe, and sank to the bottom unconscious. Henry S. Birdseye '50, loser of the bet, rushed for aid from a pool supervisor, who dove in to recover the victim...