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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hollywood, producer of such hits as Cleopatra (with Theda Bara), Seventh Heaven and What Price Glory; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Born in Tulchva, Hungary, ex-Newsboy and ex-Garment Worker Fox launched himself in the entertainment world when he used his $1,666.66 savings to buy a rundown Brooklyn nickelodeon. In 1915 he formed the Fox Film Corp., pyramided it (on paper) by 1929 into a $300 million empire, amassed a personal fortune of $35 million. But the cost of equipping 1,100 Fox theaters for talking pictures proved his undoing. The empire crumbled during the Depression...
John Donelan, Harvard's starter, also pitched well, but was the victim of bad luck in the first inning, when Yale pushed across its only runs on a walk, a triple by Captain Eddie McHugh, whose long drive to left center was misjudged by Dick Clasby, and a rundown several minutes later in which McHugh eluded Walsh's tag. After this, Donelan scattered four hits and showed excellent control
Preacher Henrichsen found her Maine parsonage saggy and rundown. The roof was a sieve, every door was warped, and the front hall had to be shoveled when it snowed. Huddled in her winter coat, Mrs. Henrichsen studied with her feet in the oven, and kept a wary eye peeled for field mice scurrying up the open drain of the old iron sink...
...could have been less surprised. Not a gambling man ordinarily, the abbe had bought his ticket with worthy motives and under good omens. Between routine parish rounds, he had driven up to Nancy in his rundown Dodge to take in a military festival. An intelligence major in World War II, Old Soldier Grandmougin felt patriotic, recalled that the proceeds of the lottery go to aid disabled French veterans. He also felt lucky; in a dream a few nights before, his car had started to go over a cliff, then righted itself in the nick of time. Having heard the "voice...
...Theirs was not a new dream, but it was one that never loses its shine: they would sail around the world together in a small boat, and support themselves by writing about their adventures. They put all their money into buying and refitting the Reliance, a tough but rundown old 70-ft. fishing ketch, but they didn't have quite enough and they ran into debt. Before the Reliance was ready to sail, the mortgage holders began to close in. It was then, with the foreclosure notice already nailed to their dream-boat's mast, that the Davisons...