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Altogether Gibson has poured around $300,000 into his hobby (including $50,000 for a log base-station, new this season), has taken out his dividends in fun. A so-so skier (he hurt his knee cap seven years ago), he nevertheless likes to wrap himself in a huge sheepskin coat, clap on a cocky green Alpine hat, ride up the mountain and ski down (see cut). Nights he joins the orchestra in the Currier & Ives Room at the inn, plays one of his four mandolins and seven violins, including a glass one. Between numbers, he regales his guests with...
...Follies of 1914. The Passing Show of 1916 made him a star. Writing the book, lyrics and music and starring in the Ed Wynn Carnival, The Perfect Fool, and The Grab Bag (1919-1925) made him a millionaire. Thereafter he played in seven more musical shows, all hits, made three so-so movies, and in 1932 became Texaco's "Fire Chief...
Experts gave Trainer Ben Jones most of the credit when a 7-to-1 colt named Pensive ran away with the Kentucky Derby. The three-year-old, owned by Warren Wright of Chicago (Calumet Baking Powder), had shown only so-so form in winning three of seven previous starts, wns ailing a week before the Derby. A week after that event Pensive, again with Jockey Conn McCreary up, breezed through to cop the Preakness. Next week Pensive, McCreary and Jones are favored to take the Belmont Stakes and the second Triple Crown* of U.S. horse racing for Ben Jones...
This production is a little rough in spots but in Boston they are likely to be that way. It's not good and not bad: just ...
...Riebel had tried to wriggle out of the strait jacket, but he was soon laced in tighter than ever by the rough & tumble Brewster union. He had no time to untangle the materials mess Result: Brewster failed in production on the Navy's Corsair fighter, although production of the so-so Brewster dive-bomb er picked up. In August, month of Brewster's latest strike, not a Corsair was delivered...