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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite his nickname, Commander Lionel Kenneth ("Buster") Crabb was no great shakes as a surface swimmer; but given a pair of rubber flippers, some goggles and an oxygen tank, he was at home in the murky depths. In 1942 when Italian divers were busily attaching lethal limpet mines to the bottoms of Royal Navy ships at anchor off Gibraltar, Buster Crabb was even busier at the far more dangerous job of removing them. Mustered out of the navy at war's end with the George Medal for heroism, Crabb returned to civilian life as a salesman...
...rising Cinemactress Diana (A Kid for Two Farthings) Dors, 24, and Hollywood's seasoned (44) Ginger Rogers bumped into each other on the French Riviera at a reception in the Aga Khan's villa near Cannes. There for the annual International Film Festival, the platinum pair looked strikingly sisterly - a tribute to Ginger's durable beauty...
...painter who often exclaimed, "Lord, I love the theater," Shinn depicted the flashing figures onstage at Manhattan's Winter Garden Theater. Shinn, with an old vaudeville fan's admiration for the acrobats' split-second timing, showed that he had a keen and appreciative eye for a pair of long silk-stockinged legs as well...
...inaccessible from March to June to all but the thirty members of the varsity and freshmen teams. Others--be they House players or just poor amateurs--must go to the 25 green-painted asphalt courts, deceptively attractive from a distance. But such surfaces spell death to sneakers ($6.95 a pair) and balls ($2.15 a can) within two hours, and cause high, unorthodox bounces. The fact that the lines have faded with the years is made more annoying by the balls' friendly, blending shade of green. Since both ball and line are invisible, "take two" or "do it over" are frequent...
Cook picked up a friend, Jimmy Parks, 33, a fight promoter, and one of the county's numerous "special," i.e., honorary, deputy sheriffs with the privilege of flashing a badge and toting a pistol. Then the pair took off for Houston, stopping occasionally on the way to fortify themselves with beer. "I got to thinking," Cook later recalled, "if I could go over to Houston and clean up the case and bring the man and the money back to San Antonio and dump it all in the lap of the police chief, I would be famous." Finally...