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...proposal to revitalize the world's slowest sport was made last week by 60-year-old John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, plump Lieut. Colonel, the ist Baron Brabazon of Tara. Writing in the British journal, Chess, he proposed that the starting positions of the king and queen be switched. "Away with all this opening undergrowth that is dragging down the game," cried the Baron...
...Lieber is balding and plump, Mrs. Lieber middle-aged and kindly. He comes from Missouri, she from Russia. Albert Einstein and other top-flight savants like to read what the Liebers write. At Long Island University they have founded the Galois Institute of Mathematics,* to which the greatest U.S. mathematicians contribute expositions of their favorite subjects in what they hope is simple English...
...tall, well-built, with thin blond hair and slightly bulgy blue eyes. Starting from scratch, he made about a million dollars, owns three large farms, a dye works, a textile mill and a vegetable-oil factory. Señora Ana María Aversavo de Diligenti, pleasant, plump, 42 and also born near Milan, came to Argentina as a singer with a small opera company, leaving a husband in Italy. She gave up her career eight years ago when she and a small son, by her first husband, moved in with Señor Diligenti...
...best abortionists in the U.S. went to jail last week. She is Manhattan's Mrs. Alice Mary Heinrich Chairman, 56, a plump, kindhearted Hungarian of good family, with a medical degree from a Budapest medical school...
Clergymen will also be asked to revive the old New England custom of "election sermons," plump for candidates who show awareness that political life needs the leaven of Christian teaching to make good political, economic and social conditions...