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Slimmed down after a nine-week diet of "baked beans, canned asparagus and Scotch whisky" while filming The African Queen in the Belgian Congo, Cinemactor Humphrey Bogart, with his wife Lauren Bacall and 2½-year-old son Stephen, arrived in Manhattan. Said Bogie: "Africa is a good place to stay away from, but I suppose that statement will burn up all the Africans." Before leaving for Hollywood, he went to a ball game, where he met another baseball fan, Douglas MacArthur. The dialogue, said Bogart, went something like this: "The general said: 'Hear you had a pretty rough...
...toting combat men. Last week the Army added up some statistics, announced that 2,800 decorations had been won by its devoted medics. Among them: one Medal of Honor, nine D.S.C.s, 149 Silver Stars, 1,110 Purple Hearts. ¶ In Washington, the National Research Council spoke up to scotch a hoax. People calling themselves "Kinsey investigators" have been telephoning Washingtonians to ask intimate questions about their sex lives. Said the council: no real Kinsey man interviews by telephone...
...while away the hours on lonely Cocos, great-great-grandson Ross V has golf links, a fast yacht, a long-range radio transmitter, a tight little cellar of Scotch whisky and a 5,000-volume library (mostly whodunits). But ships call at the Cocos Islands only twice a year; the 19 resident whites are all men, and lonely John kept thinking of an English girl he had met last fall on a trip to England to study colonial administration at Oxford...
...cake, a 30-pound, twelve-sided baker's delight, each side decorated with a sign of the zodiac, the main panel showing Leo, the Princess' own sign, and the top iced with the pattern of her personal standard and planted with 21 silver candles, silver roses and Scotch thistles. Among the guests: Billy Wallace, Lord Ogilvy and the Earl of Dalkeith-her three favorite suitors...
Kroening himself expected no repeat performance. But Mainliner did it all over again, took the lead at the head of the stretch, held off every challenger to finish a length ahead of Scotch Rhythm for the Hambletonian's biggest upset since The Ambassador paid $68.20 in 1942. To Owner Kroening went a $51,347-26 winner's share of the $95,263 purse, richest Hambletonian in history...