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Died. Mamoru Shigemitsu, 69, durable, one-legged (from a 1932 bomb- throwing) diplomat who signed Japan's 1945 surrender aboard the Missouri, served twice as Foreign Minister (1943-45, 1954-56); of a heart ailment; in Yugawara, Japan. Careerist Shigemitsu was an early advocate of expansion into China, but...
Son of an expatriate Hungarian cavalryman who ran a Long Island livery stable, Jerkens has spent most of his life around horses, was only 15 when he bought his first mount, an unfashionable, sore-legged colt named Crack Time. He spent long, cold months patching up his purchase and galloping...
The Iron Petticoat (MGM) is practically a remake of the old Greta Garbo-Melvyn Douglas comedy about how Lenin's glass-of-water theory is vanquished by Hollywood's slipper-of-champagne theory, and the world is saved for black lace undies. This version, however, might more accurately...
Their testing came in December, 1951, when nine-year-old Gabrielle, "a long-legged, sun-kissed little girl, full of lively, irrepressible spirits," went to bed with a stomachache. Slowly, the symptoms multiplied: vomiting, difficulty in breathing, sharper attacks of pain followed by extreme lassitude. The doctor thought it was...
This book is the record of the year that followed. From a hulking, aggressive man-in-a-hurry who liked physical action and plenty of it, Stuart was reduced to an invalid without even the strength to tie his shoelaces. Carried back to the Ken tucky hill country where he...