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...college geology and a hunch on where to look. He teamed up with Septuagenarian Stella Dysart, an oil wildcatter, who knew every corner of the 72-sq.-mi. area from her 30 unsuccessful years of oil hunting. Using Stella's drilling logs of rock formations and a rickety, secondhand rig, Lou Lothmann cut down 360 ft. into a 17-ft.-thick seam of uranium on Dysart land. That started the rush. In the past two years, the region around Ambrosia Lake and the neighboring town of Grants has been found to contain more than 65% of all estimated...
...unemployed musician named Buddy Walker, and Buddy was impressed with the gangly youngster's ferocious skill. He went to a friend named Van Houton (a tennis buff who liked to boast that he was the only self-employed racket stringer in Harlem), bought Althea a pair of secondhand rackets, and put her to work practicing against the wall of a handball court. A few weeks later he took her uptown to some public courts, and her performance was phenomenal. The other players quit their games to watch. In her first time on a tennis court, Althea learned the pleasure...
Marvin got on the trail several years ago when he stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
...outer rail of Pasadena's "suicide bridge" on his hands, apparently indifferent to the 190-ft. drop that awaited the least slip. He longed to be a member of Victor McLaglen's motorcycle corps of trick riders, and when he was 16 his father got him a secondhand cycle. For the next few years Bill rode blissfully about the streets of Pasadena, standing on the seat...
...star of the usual intimate revue. In the present unusual intimate one, she is still worth seeing, but considerably handicapped. She makes 13 appearances; the only other performers-a dance trio-appear even oftener. Onstage so often, Actress Grenfell is forced back upon the second best and even the secondhand-such things as Songs My Mother Taught Me (mother was one of Virginia's famous Langhorne sisters*). The dances only now and then rise above the agreeable, and the trio would benefit themselves and the show if they sat a few dances...