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Ohio was the best proof of that. Though both Harold Stassen and Robert Taft immediately ran out their victory flags, the result of last week's Ohio primary was a flat standoff. Stassen had picked up only nine of 23 contested delegates-three fewer than he had said he would. Despite Taft's confident prediction that he would lose but one delegate, he had lost nine in his own home state...
...went along on the ill-fated British expedition in Greece, saw his comrades blown to bits, was wounded and captured by the Germans. Clad in a pair of blue pajamas, boots and a white panama he had stolen from a Greek plumber, Farran escaped, drifted on a caique for nine days until a British destroyer picked him up. He got back to the Western desert in time for El Alamein. One day he drove a brigadier in a staff car when the car suddenly skidded and turned over. The brigadier was killed. Said Farran, who was unscathed: "I contemplated suicide...
Milton's 2,500 graduates include 15 Forbeses, four Cabots, eight Coolidges, five Saltonstalls, nine Welds. Most Milton alumni go to Harvard, and State Street (Boston's Wall Street) is full of them. Besides the proper Bostonians, Milton's roster includes Poet T. S. Eliot, Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, Diplomat William Phillips, Dr. (and ex-All America) Barry Wood, Principal William G. Saltonstall of Exeter. The manufacturer of Thayer's Slippery Elm Lozenges, the designer of three America's Cup-winning yachts, and a British M.P. are all old Miltonians. On Admiral Byrd...
...outside Indiana. An old man from Texas told how he had been instructed to discontinue insulin and eat sweets, if he liked. His toes began to turn black, and eventually his leg had to be amputated. A 14-year-old girl told the court that after she had used nine jugs of the Kaadt magic medicine, her eyes clouded over with cataracts...
Arcaro owns a home in the suburbs. It is a nine-room stone-&-stucco house on a dead-end street in Rockville Centre, L.I. ?safe for his two kids, Carolyn, 6,?and Bobby, 4. Arcaro, who has been living soft since he quit as contract jockey for the Greentree Stable 1½ years ago, sleeps until 9 a.m. He used to get up at 6 a.m., like most jockeys. Now a free lancer, he eats a leisurely breakfast, and at 11:30 a.m. hops into his Cadillac and drives to work...