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...days after 18-year-old Oona O'Neill had described her eight-month acquaintance with Charles Chaplin as "entirely on the esoteric side," the comedian packed sleek, sloe-eyed Oona into a car, picked up the certificate and a case of champagne at Santa Barbara, sped to coastal Carpinteria, nervously found the finger for her first and his fourth wedding ring,* hid himself and his bride somewhere in Montecito...
Facing the prospect of a year without the heavy receipts of the football season, the Harvard Athletic Association has closed Newell Boat House, which once housed a score or more of sleek Harvard shells...
Established in Reno for the stated purpose of divorcing the former Marguerite Lawler Branyen of Minneapolis is a "Mr. Holkar," who married her four years ago with a high-flown flourish: "Without mental peace I cannot properly discharge my duties as a ruler." Slim, sleek "Mr. Holkar" is His Highness Maharajadhiraj Raj Rajeshwar Sawai Shree Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur ("His Highness the Lord Paramount, King of Kings, one-quarter-better-than-anyone-else, beautiful King Shepherd, Brave Warrior"), fabulously wealthy Maharaja of Indore, 34, ruler of some 1,325,000 souls, possessor of the first air-conditioned palace in India...
...Five sleek Crimson shells did business as usual with M. I. T. last Saturday. But the five victories that were Harvard's were won from a dangerously powerful M. I. T., and the closeness of some of the races, especially the Varsity finale, auger a rough time in Philadelphia next week for the oarsmen...
...sailed to get his share was short, swarthy Captain Andrew Vilicich, master of the sleek, 77-ft. Gallant. Like most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends...