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Just after his 21st birthday Clark Gable joined a touring theatrical company called the Jewell Players, stayed with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...
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...ninth opponent according to Fritz, it was Tony Canzoneri, later featherweight champion of the world knocked him out after three seconds of the first round. He taught riding at a resort in New Hampshire, worked as a mail rider packing the post into a gold mine near Cooke City, Mont. He played tinkly-tonk piano in little bins in Greenwich Village, Third Avenue bars, beer halls in Manhattan's German quarter. He took three weeks to learn the organ, played at Keith's Albee in Brooklyn. He also played the piano on a cruise ship that commuted between Miami...
...wonder last year as a big orange balloon carrying two passengers floated back and forth across the country. Photographed by movie cameras in an accompanying helicopter, the balloon whisked by the spires of the Strasbourg Cathedral, almost bumped into the Eiffel Tower, skimmed within a few yards of Mont Blanc, dipped down to mast level over the Riviera. In Paris last week the resulting film, Voyage in a Balloon, gave audiences a stunning cloud's-eye view of virtually every remarkable tourist sight in France...
Into the green-carpeted Petroleum Club lounge of the Northern Hotel in Billings, Mont. last week popped the Republican candidate for U.S. President. Then, with the group of newsmen accompanying him on the campaign trail, Richard M. Nixon opened the kind of informal press conference (no direct quotation allowed) that was once a standard Nixon campaign instrument. Although they had been complaining bitterly about the rarity of such occasions in recent months, most of the traveling newsmen largely ignored the visitor, leaving the Vice President to get along with local reporters...