Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Aw Boon Haw, 72, fabulously wealthy Hong Kong Chinese (donations to charity alone: $20 million) of a heart ailment; in Honolulu. Son of a Rangoon herb dealer, genial Philanthropist Haw parlayed a patent medicine named Tiger Balm into an Asian empire embracing hotels, breweries, factories and a string of newspapers; spent his money building more than 300 schools and hospitals (his announced goal: 1,100), promoting Chinese nationalism (he gave the Chungking government $4,000,000 to aid in the war against Japan) and ornamenting his showpiece estates in Hong Kong and Singapore...
Columnist Herb Caen of the San Fran cisco Examiner, who likes nothing better than balancing on the knife edge of propriety, last week passed along to readers a choice item about Cinemactress Ava Gardner. One night, while gambling at Lake Tahoe, said Caen, Ava announced: " 'I want to roll the dice for $1,000.' She picked up the dice and began rubbing them up and down the front of her dress, all the while chanting 'Come seven, come eleven'-and each time she rubbed, her neckline got lower, wow. Finally, she threw the dice hard, shouted...
...Money (Sat. 9 p.m., CBS). Herb Shriner back for fall series...
...Williams varsity could take only the second and fourth singles, and it lost the other eight singles matches in straight sets. The Crimson winners included Ham Gravem, Captain John Rauh, Donn Spencer, Don Bossart, Conrad Fischer, Herb Stone, and Maynard Canfield. The varsity's second and fourth men--both of whom lost close three-set matches--were Brooks Harris and Alex Haegler...
Pablo Eisenberg and Ted Rogers of Princeton beat Ham Gravem and Brooks Harris in the first two singles matches in straight sets. Eisenberg won, 7-5, 6-3, over Gravem at number one. The only Crimson singles winners besides Rauh were Gene Mann at five and Herb Stone at nine...