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...capsule had been flashing a misleading signal to the ground. But John Glenn could not be certain that he was safe until he saw that the parachute which would lower his capsule gently into the Atlantic had opened. Said he the next day: "That's probably the prettiest of sight you ever saw in your life...
...Lady Jeanne Campbell in the London Evening Standard, Dec. 20: "Whenever two people are gathered together in New York today, they fall to talking about the Kennedys or the Murphys. Now, the Kennedys are spoken of in loud voices while the Murphys are but whispered of -to date. The prettiest Murphy of them all is said to be called 'Happy' Murphy. She is young, in her early 30s, and a country-loving girl. Already people are comparing her to the Duchess of Windsor when she was plain Mrs. Simpson. However, this seems a strange comparison...
...test was to shut the children in a dark temple room filled with the recently severed heads of water buffaloes, pictures of skeletons and other horrors. Little Laksmi passed this one with flying colors-but if all the finalists had shown fear, the priests would simply have picked the prettiest...
...Roger Maris is a cocky pro with the classic attributes of the power hitter: keen eyesight, quick wrists, magnificent coordination. His controlled, compact swing is one of baseball's prettiest sights. "There's no waste motion at all," marvels Yankee Batting Coach Wally Moses. Raised in North Dakota, the son of a mechanical supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, Maris was a phenomenal high school football player. No student ("Sports took up all my time; I couldn't keep my mind on books"), Maris turned down some half-dozen col lege scholarship offers to try out with...
...target 50 yds. off. With all this to watch, her male competitors in last week's National Smallbore Rifle Championships could scarcely keep their minds on the range. "Not only can Lenore Jensen outshoot me," said one, "but she's got the prettiest legs on the firing line." A pert and dark-eyed senior at Central Michigan University (where she was the 1959 homecoming queen), Lenore Jensen, 20, has been outshooting the competition, male and female, since she entered her first rifle match five years ago. She won the National Women's Smallbore Championship...