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...more chapter in the continuing saga of former Harvard racquetman MIKE DESAULNIERS. Desaulniers last weekend captured the $15,000 Dunlop U.S. Pro Squash Championships in Detroit. The tournament marks the third straight time in as many weeks that Desaulniers has beaten Sharif Khan, the current number one world ranking professional. Desaulniers is the first man to ever beat Khan in three consecutive weeks...
...saga began in late 1977, when Kennecott took some of the proceeds from the Government-ordered sale of a subsidiary, Peabody Coal Co., and bought Carborundum Co., a maker of abrasives. As soon as the purchase was made, T. Roland (Ted) Berner, 70, the chairman of Curtiss-Wright, saw an opportunity. He said that Kennecott paid too much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that...
...that might have made it great. She mugged cheerfully in a not very successful George Burns comedy, Just You and Me, Kid. (She says she wants to do comedy, but her mother, less sure, would prefer she stay with pretty pictures.) She was ridiculous in the idiotic desert island saga Blue Lagoon, possibly because she felt ridiculous; she did a lot of her acting while walking in a trench cut in the sand so that Co-Star Chris Atkins, 18, could appear to be taller than...
...however, for a majority of the Vietnamese boat people the horrendous saga of suffering had come to a halt. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by the turn of the year more than 300,000 Vietnamese had been permanently settled in west. Though years 60,000 ago, a still remain in Southeast Asian camps, the resettlement record is impressive. The U.S. tops the list of countries that have accepted the Vietnamese boat people, with 185,000, followed by Canada, with 46,000, and Australia, with 38,000. France has taken in 9,000, in addition...
None of this made him a celebrity. As he notes in this wry saga, it was his publications and authors who became household names. Those authors live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both...