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...apartness grew with age. Winny, as the family called him, was the huskiest Rockefeller, at 6 ft. 3 in. and a good 200 lbs., by his early twenties. He was also the only one of the five brothers to drop out of college (Yale during his third year). He never returned. "I went to a doctor," he recalled later, "who examined my eyes and then remarked: 'I don't believe the trouble is in your eyes. Did you ever try opening a book?' " Roustabout to Roughneck. It was an unspoken law that all the Rockefeller boys should...
Atlantic City paraded another year's harvest of beauty. Top of the crop and Miss America for 1952: a statuesque Westerner, Colleen Kay Hutchins of Salt Lake City, 25 years old, 5 ft. 10 in. tall, weighing 143 lbs., oldest and huskiest girl ever to capture the crown, the tallest winner in six years, the first blonde in 13. Her take: the usual $5,000 scholarship plus whatever she can make in a grueling year of personal appearances and testimonials. Her ambition: the usual stage career...
...With the distance cut to two miles, the sprinting Eastern crews were conceded a better chance in the varsity race over the Westerners, who are trained for endurance. As the toothpick-shaped shells slid to their starting marks, Eastern hopes were centered on M.I.T.'s powerful sprint champions, huskiest boatload on the water. But at the mile mark it was already apparent that the East was outclassed again...
...Sunday for the past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods her greetings...
...demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable and so much more terrible than the dozens of blows from...