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...Amanda McKerrow, 17, was asleep in her room at the Rossiya Hotel off Red Square when her coach, Washington Ballet Company Founder Mary Day, called with the news: "We've hit the jackpot-it's the gold." The 5-ft. 3-in., 90-Ib. dancer had tied for top honors last week in the 16-to 19-year-old category of the quadrennial Moscow International Ballet Competition, the first American to be so honored. "We didn't go for fire-works," says Amanda of her final-round pas de deux from Sleeping Beauty with Partner Simon...
...giant of the industry and its current pacemaker is Chicago's Continental Casualty Co., whose high-risk premiums have tripled to $21 million in five years. Continental got into the business in 1954 by hiring away a Lloyd's expert named Vincent S. McKerrow, who now heads Continental's special-risks department, which has branches in 16 cities. Under McKerrow, Continental has insured a railroad against any harm that might be caused by two Siberian tigers being shipped to a St. Paul zoo, also insured members of a private New Orleans club against excessive bodily harm caused...
...happy day for the inmates at Luzira. Since it was McKerrow who paid the prison's pipers, he it was who called the tunes. He established an official clubroom in his cell to beguile the prisoners' weary hours with brandy, gin, whisky, cigarettes and regularly delivered copies of British racing forms. For a while the club kept an open stock of canned tidbits, but McKerrow soon had to lock them up because one dishonest prisoner took to pinching the stores. Each evening the select prisoners would dispatch willing warders to place their bets with local bookies...
When a less obliging guard in McKerrow's prison objected to the presence of McKerrow with a woman prisoner in the warders' quarters, he was promptly transferred. Even one of the prison matrons was said to have warned all rival females: "Leave McKerrow alone. He's my man!" -although McKerrow himself vigorously denied having relationships with anyone but a dusky teen-ager on the outside named Christine Goa, whom he had made pregnant...
...prison term drew to its close, foresighted Prisoner McKerrow took the precaution of applying for a job as an accountant in England. Last week he was reluctantly forced to write his prospective employers to tell them that he might be delayed in reporting for duty. A shortage of $1.400 in the prison books and a considerable cache of money found in Mc-Kerrow's cell led to an investigation, a trial, and the sentencing of Robert John Edwin McKerrow to 18 months more at "hard" labor...