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...signing the strip, changed it legally in 1949), grew up amid a ferocious struggle with poverty. His father, Otto Caplin-a glib, cheerful, optimistic man who studied law at Yale, had a dilettante's interest in art and nursed continual schemes for making his fortune-managed to eke out only the barest living. It was largely his mother's courage and resourcefulness that kept the family a going concern...
Paula is one of 200-odd French actors who eke out their stage salaries dubbing French dialogue on Hollywood sound tracks for the French-owned Syndicat de Post-Synchronisation. Theirs is difficult and exacting work. Sometimes they must sit for eight hours a day watching and listening to their stars. "When Bergman's lips pop as she says 'my,' my lips must pop as I say 'mon,' " explains Paula, who tries to duplicate not only the stars' inflections but their voices as well. "Sometimes I have to watch Bergman make her speech three, four...
...story follows the fortunes of two English families living on the Zulu veld in South Africa. The Elliots had fled scandal in England; Mrs. Ashburn had brought her family in abortive search of a fortune in cotton. They eke out a poor existence from the wilderness, contending with drought, fever, and the whims of the Zulus, Mrs. Ashburn even resorts to hatching python eggs for spare cash...
...HAVEN, March 12--"The home-court advantage" of New Haven's Payne Whitney Gymnasium proved just sufficient, by the narrowest possible margin, to enable Yale's basketball team to eke out a photo finish, one point revenge over the Crimson quintet Saturday night...
Swimming before nearly 200 spectators. Coach Ulan's sea dogs placed first in six of the eight events. The alumni managed to eke out victories in the first and last events of the meet, the 150-yard medley relay and the 200-yard freestyle relay...