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...weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month of 1942 she sat through 52 motion pictures...
...Girl in the Copa Line. From modeling, Ann progressed to acting. In 1939, when Bill Woodward was a schoolboy at Groton, she was a showgirl in Noel Coward's girlshow, Set to Music. Later she had some minor success in radio soap operas, e.g., Joyce Jordan, Girl Interne, and in nightclubs.. One night in 1943 Ensign Bill Woodward, just out of Harvard and just sworn in for wartime service with the Navy, spotted a girl wearing a cat costume in the chorus line at the Copacabana. It was Ann, and it was love. After a two-week engagement...
...large bony fingers grope for confidence among the spotlight's motes, or nervously smooth the pockets of his costly dinner-suit; his gangling frame folds into the diffident attitudes of a lady companion anxious to please an exacting employer: in approaching a high note he is the schoolboy cricketer praying to hold a vital catch...
...Hackers Challenge Cup" race, which will include four Crimson light weight boats, annually marks the withdrawal of the crew into the inside tanks. The fifth crew comes from Andover Academy--the first schoolboy eight ever to race for the Hackers...
...Stinks. To Harmer, which has sold and resold more than $42 million worth of stamps, the Caspary auction will be the biggest in a series of philatelic firsts that began 61 years ago. The family-owned company was founded by Henry Revell Harmer, who collected stamps as a schoolboy, decided after taking his first job in a chemical plant that he "could do better with stamps than with stinks." Harmer roamed the world in search of rarities, opened his first stamp auction in London in 1918. Harmer sold $56,000 worth of stamps his first season, trebled his business...