Word: pocketing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seat. In Munnsville, N.Y., Farmer Wesley Bolin slid down a rope from a hayloft, set off matches in his pocket, watched his barn burn to the ground...
...British cruiser Ajax dropped anchor last week at Haifa. In the first winter of the war against Hitler, the Ajax had been a symbol of hope and freedom when she and two other light British warcraft harried the German pocket battleship Graf Spee to self-destruction off Montevideo. She was not that sort of symbol last week to hundreds of desperate Jews who stared at her from impounded refugee ships in Haifa harbor...
...dictator of his region's junior tennis. Jones decides which youngsters are invited to the important tournaments, which are sent on all-expense-paid tennis trips. (Most of the revenue comes from the big Pacific-Southwest tournament; occasionally Jones quietly helps boys out of his own pocket.) Among his ex-protégés: Ellsworth Vines, Don Budge, Bobby Riggs, Jack Kramer, Ted Schroeder...
Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
Married. Prince Louis II, 76, ruler of the pocket principality of Monaco, whose most valuable import is tourist money gambled at Monte Carlo; and Ghyslaine Domanget, 46, onetime French actress; in Monte Carlo...