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Heir to the Duke tobacco dynasty, Walker P. ("Skipper") Inman Jr., 10, is already one of the world's richest little boys-and potentially one of the wealthiest men of the late 20th century. An orphan since the age of six, Skipper, who lives with his uncle on a 2,000-acre farm in Brunson, S.C., will get $30 million from his father's estate when he reaches 21. Now, following the death of his grandmother Nanaline Holt Inman Duke, he will get another $35 million. All but passed over in the latest parceling was Skipper...
Making his own crowd at the Seattle World's Fair, Kansas Rancher Glenn Cun ningham, 52, world's greatest miler in the 1930s, took in the sights with his wife, their nine children, and an orphan boy whom he is caring for at his Cedar Point spread. Cunningham ran 20 races in less than 4 min. 10 sec., a time that college milers beat regularly today, and the former Kansas flash saw no end to the improvement. "They'll get the time under 3:48," a full 6.4 sec. better than the current world mark, he said...
...elderly tycoon with a toothbrush mustache, who smokes like a chimney, speaks through his nose and is perpetually angry?" asked Juliette in serialized memoirs in Paris Match and London's weekly People. The answer, said she, was that "I have always loved lost causes. He was like an orphan to me. I was attracted by that poor little rich man who was in some ways blind, deaf and dumb." The old Romeo's reply to sweet Juliette: a $20,000 damage suit for making him look "ridiculous...
...consistent in any comic strip--lobby in The Black Book for an idyl and a humorous view of life; just as the characters in other common strips lobby, with terrible earnestness, for their own interests. You know, Buz Sawyer for the Navy, Steve Canyon for the Air Force, Little Orphan Annie for the Jack Acids and Goldwatery cranks. With the Black Book to hearten it, the Pogo lobby will continue to support...
When Charlie grows restless, the family travels, usually to Venice, Paris or London, or to the Irish coast, where they have bought a house. Charlie likes to walk the slum streets of London, where he grew up as an orphan. When they travel, the family flies in two or three planes so that no crash could claim all of them...