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...daughters, Gina, 23, and Wally, 20. Gina and Wally brought the boys hot water, their meals, and the only English book they could find in the town (a well-thumbed copy of Uncle Tom's Cabin) and sometimes played cards with them in the evening. Chapp took a shine to blonde Wally, who was smart, and a year younger than he was. She called him Roberto...
...tussle. A slow starter in 1946, Grimsley caught fire against the Crimson last year and danced through the Crimson defenses for both tallies. The halfback flash has had another disappointing start on his current campaign, but he turned in a top-flight exhibition against Lehigh on Saturday and may shine for the Scarlet against their New England foes once more...
...tourists with dollars, a drink costs as little as 25? and a five-course dinner only 80?. American cigarettes come to 11? a package, Argentine steak 25? a lb., a taxi ride across town 10?, a shoe shine 1½?. Outside the capital, tourists can live in a first-class hotel for $1.50 a day, with meals...
Early on the fifth day, just after New York's skyscrapers caught the shine of a bright blue autumn morning, teletypes clacked in all police stations, ordering flags flown at half-mast. Signal gongs in all firehouses began beating out the 5-5-5-5 rhythm which heralds the death of firemen and of great public servants. Newspapers began spilling off the presses with the black headline: LAGUARDIA DEAD...
...rash of ribbons and a Patton commendation for "superior performance." No shrinking violet, Allen has let his publisher spread the commendation on the jacket of Lucky Forward, his raucous, truculent history of Patton's Third Army. In a not very roundabout way, the author is made to shine in the reflection of Patton's glories, for, according to Allen, "Patton never made a move without first consulting G2. In planning, G-2 always had the first...