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...more temperamental star. The actor was a bobcat that obviously had no intention of doing what he was told. He broke out of his cage, fled up a tree, fought so violently when lassoed that he broke his neck and died. Reported the frustrated moviemaker to his employer, Encyclopaedia Britannica Films, Inc.: "I am now without a cat to work with. I very much regret having to report so much trouble, but it seems to go with this kind of work...
After her first match against Van Doren two weeks ago, Mrs. Nearing spent the weekend poring over the Encyclopaedia Britannica. But none of her hunches paid off. Still she managed to tie Van Doren and push the stakes to $1,000 a point...
...bore the device: "Brothers and comrades, let us follow the Cross, and if we have true faith in this symbol, we will conquer." The facts will always remain astonishing-how Cortés scuttled his ten ships (not "burned behind him," but dismantled and sunk, despite legend and the Encyclopaedia Britannica) and with his Aztec mistress, 400 Spaniards, 15 horses and ten cannons, advanced against the unknown things that lay behind an 18,000-ft. mountain wall. The fantastic outcome-in which Spanish chivalry and Christian faith matched themselves against the Mexican capital, set like a city of legend amid...
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...going all the way. Getting ready for his final appearance last week, he took his uniform to be cleaned. Pleaded the tailor: "Let me take it to my synagogue tonight and I'll pray over it." Dick went back to boning up on Volume 23 of the Encyclopaedia Britannica (vegetables, vitamins, wines), The Wise Encyclopedia of Cookery and Simon's A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy...