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Married. Peggy Scriven, jaunty, snub-nosed Yorkshirewoman who played on two of England's Wightman Cup tennis teams; and Frank Harvey Vivian, R. A. F. officer; in London...
...Snub-nosed, horn-rimmed, soft-spoken Chief Herman E. Gutheim looks more like a Harvard professor than a Hollywood fire chief. (He does teach first aid to many faculty members and university employees in evening classes.) Reminiscing about the day in 1908 when Chelsea burnt down or showing his souvenirs from the time when every Cambridge householder was required to possess one ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been...
...Ramon was sorry, if not humiliated, that his brother-in-law's caution prevented him from doing more for his important friends. One thing he could do: snub the Vatican, and he pointedly refrained from asking for an audience. The Vatican's Osservatore Romano as pointedly took note of the omission in a paragraph that was clearly a rebuke. But the Vatican can neither blockade Spain nor help her to recover Gibraltar...
...oldtimer in the tank business, but not on a big production scale, A. C. F. turned out its first twelve-ton machine on May 8-a snub-snouted monster armed with four .30-calibre machine guns, a .50-calibre machine gun for use against aircraft and a wicked-looking 37-rnm. (about 1½-inch) cannon. Since then the assembly line has turned them out with increasing regularity. A. C. F. drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close...
...second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming in Memphis and environs. One night last week Bob Berryman chased John Phillips into a Memphis cafe, felled him with three shotgun charges and four bullets from a snub-nosed Colt. "It was over the night clubs down in Mississippi." moaned dying John Phillips. Holy Joe's policemen arrested Bob Berryman, charged him with murder. There was still life in Memphis, and the wages thereof...