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...Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet in his Sacramento executive suite for an exhibition of gubernatorial pushups. He got up-and down-to four, took a gasper, and then did three more before returning to less arduous duties. "I haven't," breathed Pat, "done this in a long time...
...derelict? The skipper caught a dangling rope and swung himself aboard. Fires out, engines dead, cargo-kapok, tea and aircraft engines-apparently intact. "Anybody aboard?" he bellowed as he wandered through the metal guts of the old gasper. "Anybody aboard?" A blow sent him reeling. A mad. bloody head leaped at him out of the shadows. "Who are you?" the creature (Gary Cooper) snarled. "What are you doing here...
...keep everyone happy, there were almost as many prizes as there were colors on the floor: the Swaythling Cup for the men's team champs, the Corbillon Cup for the ladies' team champs, the St. Bride Vase for the men's singles, the Gasper-Geist Cup for ladies' singles, the Pope Trophy for ladies' doubles, the Iran Cup for men's doubles. But most of the prizes did not go very far. As final after final was played out last week, the Japanese hosts walked off with most of the silverware...
...title refers to the legendary Seven Cities of Cibola, reputedly paved with gold, and the film begins as a Spanish expedition, led by Captain Gasper Portola (Anthony Quinn) and Lieut. José Mendoza (Richard Egan), forks horse and clatters away to find them. Friar Serra (Michael Rennie) goes along as chaplain of the band, hoping to found missions among the California Indians...
...National Father's Day Committee named 79-year-old William Gasper Peter of Beech Creek, Pa. the father of the largest family of 1949: he has 18 children, 80 grandchildren. Said Peter, who is not too old to work as a log splitter: "I hit the wedge hard because that is a way of blowing off steam...