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Right the Second Time. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Marion Murphy, 32, outraged when a cop stopped her for doing 40 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, jumped behind the wheel again, took off so fast that tire-sprayed gravel broke a squad car headlight, accelerated to 50 in a 25-m.p.h. zone, told the officer when stopped again: "Now you have something to arrest...
...Napoleon III kept their well-hidden mistresses; beauteous Lily Langtry waited for Edward VII at 20 Wellington Road; many less famous women lived in well-kept seclusion with nothing to do but listen for the diurnal rumble of their lovers' carriage wheels as their carriages turned into the gravel drives. When Novelist George Eliot, famed for her indifference to marriage vows, went to live there, the Countess of Cork snapped: "Of course, poor dear. Where else could...
Born. To Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, 52, gravel-voiced Negro comedian, Jack Benny's radio and television chauffeur, valet and drawling stooge since 1937, interpreter of Noah in both the 1936 movie and last fall's TV versions of The Green Pastures, and Eva Anderson, 25: their first son, second child; in Hollywood. Name: Edmund Lincoln. Weight...
...Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border," McMahon's men within hours cleared off Fort St. John's airport, spread gravel on the walks at nearby Taylor and overlaid it with miles of corrugated cardboard...
Most of the hill-less course is run over dirt, grass, and gravel, since it follows the riding path along the Charles past the race track, to the snow plow storage garages, opposite the police station, thence around a small loop, and back again to Newell along the same path...