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After an Army stint in Europe during World War II, Downing decided to become an optometrist because the only optometrist he had ever known back home was rich enough to own a Cadillac. But while he was completing his studies in Chicago, he fell in with a group of young writers and painters whose nightlong talk of art and life intoxicated him. He attended classes at the Art Institute, in 1950 scraped together enough money to get to Paris. Except for an occasional trip home, he has lived there ever since...
...canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...outstanding college player, Bellino could make the N.F.L., although some scouts have reservations about his size: "He'd try to block a 250-lb. defensive end and that would be the end of him." In any case, the pros figure that a four-year service stint and a bright future as a big-league baseball catcher will keep Bellino out of football. Ranked right alongside Bellino: Tom Mason, 21, Tulane; 6 ft. 1 in., 195 Ibs. Although U.P.I, and A.P. relegated Mason to their third-team All-America, many pros call him the nation's finest back...
...family moved to the U.S. to escape Russia's chronic antiSemitism, and in time Raphael went to evening art classes at Manhattan's Cooper Union. He quit high school m his sophomore year, worked as a messenger boy, a factory hand, even did a stint in a shop that turned out cheap flowery embroidery. But he spent every spare moment sketching...
...chain. His father soon took the Woolworth gospel to Wilkes Barre, Pa., opened his worth own store there. Young Allan went to Lawrenceville preparatory school and La fayette College, learned to value nickels by working in the store on holidays for 5? an hour. After a World War I stint in the Navy, he returned to build up a thriving Chrysler auto dealership. The turning point in his career came in 1935, when his father's tax lawyer, Walter Orr, introduced the young businessman to another ambitious young man, Bob Young...