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...horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads the Church of England (which frowns on divorce), the duke and his minions never tolerated divorced persons...
Anchors Aweigh. Last fortnight, with the cargo safely ashore, Salvager Canipe and his crew pumped the remaining water out of the Babun, did some work on her machinery and prepared to refloat her. While the natives scoffed. Canipe got two enormous, aged anchors from a Norfolk junk yard, fastened cable lines to them and dropped them a quarter-mile out at sea. The other ends of the cable were fastened to the Babun's freshly oiled winches. One morning the Babun's twin diesel motors began to purr, her winches started to wind, and the big pull...
...last week the "Baboon" was safe in port in Norfolk, with Canipe, his 18-year-old son, Mack, and his father, a retired grocer, aboard. Until the damage is appraised, Canipe will not know how much he will realize from his prize. But he has a reasonable expectation of making at least $100,000 above the money (upwards of $40,000) that it cost him to salvage the Babun...
...president of the University of Houston (see MILESTONES). A graduate of Texas A. & M., Armored Forceman Bruce commanded the 77th Infantry Division in the Pacific during World War II, was the first occupation governor of Hokkaido, later became commandant of the Armed Forces Staff College at Norfolk...
...kick and president of Alleghany Corp.; Earl E. T. Smith, New York Stock Exchange member and former husband of a descendant of Cornelius Vanderbilt; Dr. R. Walter Graham, Baltimore physician; William Landers of Utica, retired Central engineer; D. E. Taylor, president of West India Fruit and Steamship Co. of Norfolk, Va.; Frederick Lewisohn, New York Stock Exchange member; Richard M. Moss, president of Clinton Foods, Inc. of Manhattan; Mrs. Wallace; Eugene C. Pulliam, publisher of the Indianapolis Star,and News; Orville Taylor, Chicago attorney; Andrew Van Pelt of Philadelphia, Alleghany Corp. director; William...