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Five-foot eleven-inch Bill Biggs, the shortest man among the Big Green starters, is the team's other high scorer. The rest of the first string includes guard Kent Calhoun, and forwards Fred Gleg and Roger Pierce...
...seamstress, Betsy Ross. There is no proof, wrote the dissenter, that it was Betsy who had made the first American flag. "It is a sad day indeed when governmental agencies start promoting romantic rumors as though they are historical facts." Nonsense, retorted Donaldson's philatelic experts. A. Atwater Kent had spent good money to refurbish the Ross house in Philadelphia as a historical shrine; the Daughters of the American Revolution had approved the stamp; furthermore, "even if it is a myth, it is a pleasant one . . . that has been in all the history books and which all the school...
...June, curly-headed Marjorie had her dream, woke up early the next morning to jot down some lyricj about up-in-the-sky-sky-sky, see-the-snow-fly-fly-fly. She hummed an almost profes< sionally simple melody, and her aunt, a onetime supper-club singer named Sandra Kent, wrote it out. Marjorie's father, an amateur violinist, thought the lyrics were too repetitious, but Aunt Sandra dis« agreed. She landed Marjorie's song on g CBS-TV program last month, and later. Guy Lombardo heard it. Lombardo investigated and decided that it was true: Marjorie...
...pink-cheeked cadets, aged 9 to 13, of the Royal Marine Volunteer Corps were determined to look their smartest on the march to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, Kent, one evening last week. Proud members of an unofficial outfit sponsored by officers of the Royal Marine Forces, the youngsters were on their way to watch a boxing tournament in the camp of their Royal Navy counterparts. Marching crisply, they swung in a column three abreast along the narrow (27 ft.) tunnel of Dock Road...
Hungarian-born Caterers Frederick and Maria Floris, who own a farm near Chartwell, Kent, followed their ten-year-old custom of baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared...