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...stays in Preston already on his record, he faced a term in San Quentin. But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become ensnared in its brutal grip during my formative years." An impressed Superior Court judge put young Chessman on probation...
...bronzed, broad-shouldered man from Latrobe, Pa, has been curling his fingers around golf clubs ever since he was seven, when his golf-pro father taught him the correct grip. By 13, he had entered his first tournament. At Wake Forest College he was No. 1 on the golf team. In 1954, he got married, and won the National Amateur, but passed up a honeymoon in Europe in order to turn pro and start making money...
...ship is whirled to the moon by a waterspout), but though fictional it is hardly scientific, even considering the state of science in the 2nd century A.D. Claims of other ancestors are unsurprising: Swift, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Until about 1940, BEMs kept a many-tentacled grip on the medium, but then came the big turning point. Readers became too sophisticated to accept the simple substitution of the blaster for the six-gun, and stories that were merely prophetic palled as scientists caught up with the pulp writers...
With the help of his smooth-running national organization, Presidential Aspirant John Fitzgerald Kennedy keeps a hungry eye on every likely delegate to the Democratic National Convention, strikes the pose of a man picking up entire state delegations in a dead-sure grip. But last week Jack Kennedy settled for a half-loaf of delegates in California (81 votes) and a half-grip on Kansas (21 votes), while his hungry-eyed associates insisted that this was all he ever wanted...
...fathered by Charles H. Dow, a onetime broker and newspaperman, who founded Dow, Jones & Co. in 1882. The Dow Theory holds that when the Dow-Jones industrial average breaks through its previous low and is confirmed by the rail average penetrating its previous low, Wall Street is in the grip of a bear market. Both averages did just that last week (see chart), and the industrials closed the week at 609.79, off 22.21 for the week, although the loss was pared at week's end by a spirited rally...