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After standing up a brace of detectives who arrived at her Southampton, L.I. hotel much too early in the morning, Hedy (Ecstasy) Lamarr, 35, finally slipped into some white sharkskin shorts and a white terry-cloth jacket (see cut), to discuss her $250,000 worth of jewelry (none of it insured) which had somehow got lost or stolen. The gems, she drawled, had "great sentimental value...
...named eleven players to the squad that will defend the trophy against the Australians later this month. A conspicuous absentee from the list was a fiery, stocky San Francisco redhead named Earl Cochell, 28, good enough to be ranked seventh nationally and the winner of last month's Southampton tournament...
...month ago, when the two of them arrived in Britain for Maxim's go at the light-heavyweight title, Kearns got on his soapbox as soon as the Queen Elizabeth docked at Southampton. "Joey," he proclaimed, "takes a punch better than any fighter I ever handled, and that goes for both Dempsey and Walker." Without much doubt, 174-lb. Joey Maxim had been underrated too long. What the trade knows as a "spoiler," i.e., a clever boxer who enjoys making less refined punchers look like chumps, he has taken a lot of the bounce out of better-known heavyweights...
Winston Churchill, on vacation at Funchal on the island of Madeira, received the news of the election date by telephone from London, promptly flew home. Landing at Southampton, Churchill said: "I heard there was going to be a general election, so I thought I had better come back in case I was wanted. I think it's high time we had a new Parliament." The old Tory also praised Attlee for giving six weeks' riotice of the election. Said Churchill: "It's just what I did the last time. I hope it will be an equally good...
...used her speed (23 knots) to zigzag alone through submarine-infested waters. She also performed yeoman service in World War II, carrying 384,586 servicemen to & from battle. Never once was the Aquitania, known as "Grannie," fired on. Between wars she averaged a trip a fortnight from Southampton to New York, carried some 700,000 passengers. Recently the old ship, still in her stripped-down war condition, has been carrying immigrants to Canada. Last week, tied up at the Southampton dock after 35 years' service, the Aquitania was retired. Said a Cunard official, with never a tear...