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Brawner will be after more than his second victory of the meet in the 100-yard breaststroke. He won the intercollegiate record last year, and now he is aiming for the world mark. Yale Star Smith, Trinity's Ray Parrott, Union's Bob Diamond, Aaron Kurtzman of Setan Hall, and Frank Bruch of Dartmouth of have a good chance to squeeze Harvard's Emerson and Rene Vielman out of the finals...
When her hotel presented a $225.20 bill and refused to accept her check, onetime bestselling Novelist Ursula (ExWife) Parrott, 48, spent 30 hours in the Sussex County (Delaware) jail with her French poodle, Coco. "This sort of publicity is bad for a writer," complained Author Parrott. "A writer isn't like an actress, you know...
...citizens of Rawlins, Wyo. (pop. 8,634) had no end of trouble after they decided, one night back in 1880, to lynch a bandit named George Parrott. It was easy enough to get him out of jail. "Big Nose George," intent on escape, had thoughtfully filed off his leg irons and knocked the jailer cold with them, thus had left himself undefended. But he was a hard man to hang...
Writing his show in collaboration with Harold Parrott, onetime sportwriter (Brooklyn Eagle) and now traveling secretary of the Dodgers, Robinson says, "We have the contacts to get the information. That's where we have a break on the others." In his first program he gave his fans nothing that they could not have read in the sport pages, but he hopes to turn up two or three "exclusive" items each week. Despite the lateness of the broadcast hour, at least one item on every show will be aimed "directly at kids," who are the primary target of youth-minded...
...Lindesay Parrott interviewed Takao Takatogawa in Tokyo: "His Government ration . . . consists only of rice, sweet potatoes and seaweed. . . . Because charcoal costs $4 a sack (half a month's rent), his wife and daughter have to go out into the country and pick up sticks to burn. . . . 'The next winter is more worrisome to me [than the next war],' he says...