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TIME'S Letters Department finally located Concertmaster Gingold, who had moved from Detroit to Cleveland, and forwarded his address to Reader Efrati. A few weeks later, back came a letter from Efrati announcing that his hunch was right. "I am happy to inform you," he wrote, "that Mr. Josef Gingold has replied to my letter, and he is the cousin I have been looking for during the past 13 years...
...gaucheries in the first act to a stirring emotional climax in the last scene. [She] is spontaneous, lucid and captivating." The rest of the New York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey on the hunch that her play would not run a month, were obliged to twiddle their thumbs for half a year while audiences packed the Fulton to sigh and smile at the enchantingly gawky Gigi...
...second close to the finish. Then the leader, Allwood Stable's Kimberly Kid, broke his trotting stride. Laying on the whip, Helicopter's Driver Harry Harvey strained forward in his sulky, catapulted his charge a half-length ahead across the finish line. Elgin Armstrong's vacation hunch had paid...
...right anyway. When the dead woman's handbag was fished out of a lake far off the A2O road, Fabian traced the course of the bag up an old millstream to a cider works near the road. There he found a pile of newly delivered bricks. On a hunch, he asked for the truckman who had delivered them. The man gave a false name, but Fabian pried loose his real one and a criminal record: "Harold Hagger-16 convictions, including assault on a woman." Hagger blustered that Dagmar Peters had tried to rob him, but "the jury...
...world of sport boasted such immortals as Babe Ruth. Jack Dempsey, Earl Sande. Bobby Jones. Red Grange, Walter Hagen and Man o' War, the gentlemanly game of tennis came out of the private clubs into the national limelight. The man responsible for this revolution was a lanky, hunch-shouldered, hawk-faced competitor named William Tatem Tilden II. He was the greatest tennis player the world has ever seen, the one man in any U.S. sport who was without a peer. He did not always look as good as he really was. Determined never to be bored, Big Bill often...