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Born. To Manda Jane Pearson, 37, harried housewife, and Marion Pearson, 43, itinerant TV repairman: a reported U.S. record-setting seventh consecutive set of twins, their 17th and 18th children (of whom 13 survive); in Jacksonville, Fla.'s Duval Medical Center...
Died. Powel Crosley, Jr., 74, owner of baseball's Cincinnati Reds, manufacturer of low-cost radios and refrigerators and of the midget Crosley auto, a 30-h.p., $800 precursor of the compacts; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati. A onetime chauffeur and telephone repairman who developed the $22 million Crosley Corp., he moved from venture to venture, never earning more than $20 a week until he hit 30. "If I've batted .300, that's lucky," said Crosley, who batted considerably less with his ball club, saw it win but two pennants, finish in the second division...
...years ago. He talked to dealers around town: "There are no secrets in Rome. It's the most gossipy city in the world." He kept hearing the name of a certain Alfredo Fioravanti. Fioravanti, who is just Parsons' age, was eking out a living as a repairman of antiques and jewelry. Parsons got to know him well, and in time had his story...
...21st birthday Clark Gable joined a touring theatrical company called the Jewell Players, stayed with the group until it collapsed some months later in Butte, Mont. He had 26?. Hopping a freight, he took a gelid ride to the Pacific Northwest, piled logs, sold neckties, became a telephone repairman. One of the last phones he fixed was at the theater of the Red Lantern Players, where Josephine Dillon, then in her late thirties,, was the resident stage director. She taught him diction, projection and carriage, and married him when...
...repairman said that the recent malfunctions of Towers' elevators have been caused by student mishandling of the controls...