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Among 80,000 Thais who streamed into a Bangkok park to see John Glenn's Friendship 7 space capsule, going round the world this time at eye level, was Thailand's Crown Prince Vajiralongkorn (means "Possessor of the Thunderbolt"), 10. The short-pants prince's first question...
...gets increasingly frustrating. The Denver Art Museum, for instance, has only $16,000 a year to spend on new acquisitions -a sum that would not even begin to buy a top De Kooning or an Andrew Wyeth, let alone an old master. Yet last week Denver was the proud possessor of a Rembrandt (see color), proving that all is not lost in the little league...
...short satirical novel about film-making in London-it did nothing to damage its author's reputation but also did little to fulfill his promise. An unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly, "by the River Ganges where it flows into the Hollywood desert...
Although this squad doesn't have the depth of last year's, Merritt sees several of his proteges as valuable varsity members in the next three years. Speaking with obvious pride, he singled out captain Dave Abramson (now possessor of two NCAA records), Gregg Skalinder, a sprinter, and Danny Mahoney, diver, as the strongest additions...
...blind themselves to the Communists' secret-police tactics, and in For Whom the Bell Tolls he conveyed some of his disillusionment, to the anguish of his left-wing admirers. Dos Passos considered joining the party, but was soon disillusioned and paid for it by being denounced as the possessor of a "poisoned ideology and sick soul." Dreiser became a steadier, more devout believer and platform Marxist, died in the party...