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...Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick, has raised nearly $10,000, which is spent on direct mail and ads in service newspapers. Mail often comes from Americans uncertain of their electoral rights. Inquiries about voting eligibility have been received from a Marymount nun who has lived in Britain since 1932, and from a U.S. citizen currently doing three years in a British prison for a felony...
...several years America's winningest thoroughbred trainer, Hirsch Jacobs, has selected a few horses from his vast stable to run under the salmon pink and green colors of his pretty daughter Patrice, 23. Last winter the Marymount Junior College alumna was given her first chance to pick her own yearling, and after weeks of study, she chose Hail to Reason-which this summer emerged as the nation's top two-year-old. But last week in an early-morning workout at Aqueduct, the horse that Patrice felt had "developed the nicest personality I've seen...
Except that she "always wanted to be the boss of everything," Ros showed no particular early theatrical bent. She went to convent schools (Notre Dame Academy in Waterbury and Marymount College in Tarrytown-on-Hudson, N.Y.), and found she could get passing grades without half trying. Instead of going ice-skating on winter afternoons, she sneaked off to sigh at Rudolph Valentino movies...
...going in the direction of Manhattan. She left Marymount after her sophomore year and enrolled in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, explaining glibly to her puzzled mother that the voice training would help her to become a teacher. Graduating in the spring of 1929, Rosalind was impressive enough in the school's production of The Last of Mrs Cheyney to interest a badly coordinated pair of producers from a summer theater at Saranac Lake. One partner hoped to get her for $40 a week, but Ros talked the other partner into an offer of $150, and hastily accepted...