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...Folks. An art collector, tropical fish fancier and medical hobbyist (he has a library of 1,000 medical books), Elmer Bobst, 67, is also a keen student of geriatrics, has great faith "in the vast potential inherent in some 12 to 15 million people [in the U.S.] past the age of 65." Bobst himself is a testimonial to his faith. For him, life began anew at 60, when he came out of retirement to take over Warner-Hudnut. He also breathed new life into the company. Bobst launched a big expansion program, in six years boosted the company...
Sophomore Job Bray evened the score 17 seconds afterwards, when he slapped a Norm Wood pass in, over Bruin netminder Bob Copp's shoulder. But, from then on. Brown's fancier, stick handling and more aggressive play bottled up the Harvard attack...
...story called Green Thoughts, for instance, a flower fancier is devoured by his pet orchid and converted into a huge blossom in his own likeness. In his new shape, he is recognized by a resentful nephew, and efficiently hacked to pieces by the lout, who rather enjoys the flower's screams. In Thus I Refute Beelzy, a father refuses to believe his six-year-old son's story that he has a secret friend named Mr. Beelzy, who won't let anybody hurt him ("He said he'd come like a lion, with wings...
Died. Frank G. Webb, 83, automobile fancier, who got one of the nation's first permits to operate his "automatic pleasure carriage," founded the American Automobile Association in 1902, helped overcome the prejudice of lawmakers against horseless carriages; in San Diego...
...lush old 18th Century, when Venice was all the world's nightclub, the best parties of all were thrown at the Renaissance-style Palazzo Labia, just off the Grand Canal. To avoid the clatter of dishwashing at his fancier banquets, Host Labia frequently ordered his soiled gold tableware chucked into the canal at the end of each course. (The ugly gossip was that he had laid a stout fish net on the canal bottom beforehand.) The Labias and their dinnerware have long since passed into oblivion, but last week the Labia palace was all lit up again...