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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...son of a Negro clergyman ("He don't say nothing about my fighting-everybody likes a winner, man"), Moore was already a professional of sorts at the age of seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and pulling off his gloves to scramble for the nickels and dimes that were tossed into the ring. By 1952, Bantamweight Moore was good enough to win the A.A.U. title, reach the quarter-finals of the Olympics. Turning pro the next year, Moore seemed to be only a so-so fighter until 1957, when he suddenly came alive...
Things got so bad during the season that the Murphys were getting anonymous phone calls from adults. "They wanted to know what we meant by letting our boy pitch like that," says Murph's mother. "They said he was too big to throw at their boys." The son of an oil wholesaler who was once a semi-pro pitcher, Murph himself explains: "I just throw as hard as I can. I figure if I let up, someone might hit it." And being hit is the one thing Murph has not been able to stand since he pitched his first...
...ward when she gets pregnant by a Gabin employee. He bribes a high government official on behalf of a military relative. With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress. Only when he gambles with his own son's life and loses, does so much as a shadow of remorse flicker across his cynical, craggy old face. And does the villain finally get his comeuppance? Not really. Presumably he goes on making bigger deals by day even if, in the wake of his son's suicide, he does...
Whether this constitutes medical magic by a man ahead of his time or dangerous charlatanry is hotly debated. But that it has won fame and fortune for Dr. Niehans there is no doubt. Born in Bern, son of a professor of orthodox medicine, Niehans studied for the Protestant ministry before turning to medicine. He practiced conventional surgery and endocrinology until the late 19205. Then he got interested in transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans...
Married. Steven Clark Rockefeller, 23, second son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller; and Anne-Marie Rasmussen, 21, former maid in the Rockefeller's Manhattan household; in Sogne, Norway (see FOREIGN NEWS...