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...River Stay 'way from My Door, it is brother Ira's harum-scarum pal "V.R." who puts the town in a tizzy by seeming to drown in the Skunk River. Unlike Mark Twain, who allowed Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn to attend their own funeral after a similar drowning escapade, Author Kentfield arranges a highly un-Twainlike denouement. Seems that V.R. had swum the river to scare one of the town tomgirls into granting him her favors. In a third story that brakes compassion just short of tears, Ira himself leaves his mother lonely and heartbroken by bolting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Front Porch Vision | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...Miami's lineup--it is said that the list is chosen by drawing lots before each match--but somewhere between first and sixth singles will appear the likes of Johann Kupferburger, top Davis Cupper from the Union of South Africa, and highly ranked American stars as Al and Dave Harum, Ed Rubinoff, Allen Quay, and Larry Schaffer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Varsity Plays U. of Miami In Tennis Today | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

Horsetrader David Harum never had such troubles. All Uncle Sam wanted to do last week was to be the honest broker between immovable Great Britain on one side and immovable Iran and Egypt on the other. It was late in the day, but nobody could say the U.S. didn't try-at least in its usual tentative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Clumsy Broker | 1/14/1952 | See Source »

Married. Stepin Fetchit (real name: Lincoln Theodore Andrew Monroe Perry), 53, molasses-slow Negro comedy actor of the '30s (David Harum), now making a film comeback; and Bernice Sims, 35, housekeeper to a Catholic priest in Tulsa; he for the second time; in Tulsa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1951 | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

...about supporting her children as a seamstress on $14 a week. "Ray learned early you don't get nothing for nothing," Mrs. Smith says. He never forgot it. Traveling with a rowdy street gang, shooting crap in Harlem gutters, dancing for dimes on Broadway street corners, the harum-scarum kid got into more than the normal amount of trouble, including a marriage when he was 16,* a divorce when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Businessman Boxer | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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