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Too Many Stadiums. Rice lived sports, was always kind to those he wrote about. At the race track he inevitably bought a pocketful of daily-double tickets, sometimes forgot to collect when he won. He was never too busy to praise a colleague, help a cub, or compose a verse...
At that point, Katchen père put his foot down on the budding concert career, sent the boy to high school and Haverford College. Julius buckled down to his studies, majored in philosophy and literature, became a Phi Beta Kappa and won the scholarship (awarded by the French government...
Died. Jan Struther, 52, British author (.4 Pocketful of Pebbles) best known in the U.S. for Mrs. Miniver (1939), the saga of British suburbia on the verge of World War II; of cancer; in Manhattan.
To lure in people, the Smiths spot slot machines ( 3? to $1) strategically, fix them so that they pay out 97% of what is put into them. By thus keeping the house take low on their 800 slots, they build up customers' confidence for bigger bets-at eleven crap...
A hustling bundle of energy who sometimes memorizes bits of the dictionary while running around the roof of his office building to keep in condition, Louis Marx carries a pocketful of toys to give friends. He hobnobs with Army brass (at war's end he toured the German toy...