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Trailing Candy Spots, in order, will be Never Bend, Chateaugay, Bonjour, No Robbery, on My Honor, Grey Pet, Royal Tower, and Rajah Noor...
...fell to Jerry Schecter to cover the outer provinces-North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei-and he found it "the most fascinating assignment in nearly three years out here." He felt like James Brooke, the "white rajah," landing in Sarawak in the 18405 and seeing "what no educated eye had ever gazed on." In the jungle frontier, he retraced the steps of Conrad and was disconcerted to find characters still liv ing who might have stepped out of a Conrad novel...
...might have forgotten its mysterious millionaire-but the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has made Galvin a conversation piece again. It filed liens against his California property for $21,261,818 for back taxes-the largest lien against an individual in IRS memory. The Government says John Galvin owes that rajah's ransom for taxes unpaid be tween the years 1954 and 1957. Calvin's California lawyer says he owes nothing...
Died. Rogers Hornsby, 66, baseball's greatest right-handed hitter, "The Rajah of Swat," whose .424 average in 1924 set a record never surpassed; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Crusty and bluntspoken, Hornsby walloped his way up from the Texas sand lots to set a fistful of records with the St. Louis Cardinals (National League batting champion six times in a row, thrice with .400-plus) ; as player-manager in 1926, he brought St. Louis its first pennant and world championship, but had less success with other teams, going from club to club until in 1937, he left...
Fortnight ago a crowd of 100,000 gathered as the rajah's body was placed in its 69-ft.-high crematory tower. A 300-ft.-long red paper dragon was coiled around the tower's base as if in readiness to bear the rajah's soul to heaven. Priests chanted and tinkled ceremonial bells. Finally, the rajah's body was put in a coffin fashioned in the shape of a bull, and the red paper dragon was placed on top. Then the priests lit the crematory fires...