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Less than two years ago Mrs. Lottie Wolf, wife of Detroit's wiping-rag tycoon, hired Lipiec to build up a stable, gave him his big chance. The best way to get ready-to-run horseflesh in a hurry was to buy it on the race track's huge super-market-the claiming race...
Tall, auburn-haired Dorothy Shaver began her career with rag dolls. Last week, from her $75,000-a-year job, she went to greater riches. She was elected the first woman president of Fifth Avenue's smart Lord & Taylor, to succeed Walter Hoving, president...
...Oppenheimer halfheartedly supported the Administration's May-Johnson bill, but insisted that its concept of total control should not be the "pattern for the future." Some enforced secrecy was obviously necessary, he said. But he added: "The gossip of scientists who get together and chew the rag is the lifeblood of physics...
...apartment overlooking Central Park. Last week, in an orange-brown gown and with fingernails lacquered scarlet, she went to see Warner's Rhapsody. "It was sad," she said; "not for me is this a time to show off." She was pretty scornful of the show's rag-to-riches theme: "It's not the truth. . . . There was always enough money for Georgie's lessons. Poppa had twelve restaurants. But [the film] is clean . . . you can take the children...
...Britain's famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan...