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When Ed was five, another of the six surviving children died, and his parents decided that Manhattan was no place to raise a family. They moved to Port Chester, an industrial town on the Connecticut state line, ringed by such suburban garden spots as Greenwich and Rye. As a boy, Ed gave his interest to reading and sports. His favorite author was Sir Walter Scott, with his romantic yarns of knights, ladies, tournaments, good and evil. Ed had no doubt about where the knights and ladies lived and where good and evil flourished. The place, naturally, was Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Big As All Outdoors | 10/17/1955 | See Source »

...Rye, N.Y., 18-year-old Toni Monetti of Port Washington, N.Y.. a Skidmore sophomore, sister of onetime intercollegiate Dinghy Champion Bob Monetti, became the women's sailing champion of North America by clinching the Mrs. Charles Francis Adams Trophy in three days' racing in International 210s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

Died. E. Lansing Ray, 71, longtime editor and publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat; of a heart attack; in Rye Beach, N.H. Ray sold the newspaper to Manhattan's S. I. Newhouse last spring (TIME, April 4), but remained as publisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1955 | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...only boy with a smattering of experience (a few climbs in the Swiss Alps), Tony Woodfield, 16, of Rye, N.Y., led the others to the 10,000-ft. level, but at that point he noticed a couple of small avalanches break off to one side. After talking it over, the boys decided to start back down. Suddenly apprehensive, they slipknotted themselves onto a length of quarter-inch Manila line. It was another error-mountaineers never use slip knots, lest the ropes tighten around their midriffs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Death in the Snow | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

Shape Up. In Los Angeles, Model Bernice Rye, 30, won a divorce after testifying that Husband Ernest Rye, 41, entertained friends by comparing her figure to photographs of his former wife in shorts or bathing suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

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