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...Arnold Lunn, noted British author and sportsman, will address the Harvard Ski Club tonight on "Mountain and Ski Memories...
...Harrimans were married in 1930, not long after her divorce from wealthy Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and Harriman's divorce from Kitty Lawrance Harriman (who died in 1936). Each has two children by the earlier marriage. *Son of an Anglican bishop, home-tutored until he was 14, Montgomery bulled his way through London's venerable St. Paul's School as a distinguished athlete, went on to Sandhurst, Britain's West Point, where he graduated 3Oth in his class...
Full of All Actions. Since weekly boxing is one of Bangkok's biggest tourist attractions, the fight programs have helpful and somewhat startling translations for English-speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...
Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through...
...slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain's Costa Brava, Dali simmered...