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...once, dressed as Little Jack Horner, he took Margaretha (dressed as Little Red Riding Hood) to a ball sponsored by Princess Margaret. When Robin moved over to the cocktail bar at the posh Berkeley Hotel, Margaretha came and listened until he finished his 7-to-9-o'clock stint. Early this year he wrote her mother Princess Sibylla, asking for Margaretha's hand. Margaretha abruptly returned to her palace in Sweden...
After a miserable childhood, an unsatisfying stint as a subeditor on a British trade paper (Gas World) and a so-so fling as a repertory actor-manager, John Osborne looked back on his 26 misspent years in anger. When he brooded about his estrangement from his mother and his wife (divorced by him for misconduct last week), he got even angrier. The manners and morals of Britain's middle class drove him to total fury. There was little left for him to do but take his violence to the public. So John Osborne sat down and wrote a play...
...Twenty. Engineer Tucker won his academic spurs-and his first crack at public service-by specializing in industrial problems, notably the elimination of St. Louis' then-notorious smog. In the late '303, while serving a stint as smoke commissioner, he drafted and helped fight through to victory the city's model smoke ordinance. (His solution: cut down on the amount of volatile material used in industrial fuel.) Named chairman of Washington University's department of mechanical engineering in 1942, he kept serving political stints, e.g., as head of a freeholder committee that drafted a modern city...
Thus opened one of the least-known chapters in the life of Communism's founding father. This week Marx's ten-year stint as London correspondent for the Tribune is described in detail for the first time in the bimonthly American Heritage. Drawing heavily on Marx's previously untranslated correspondence, Author William Harlan Hale, 46, Greeley's biographer and now a staff writer for the Reporter, traces a strange saga of journalism...
...then it was too late, as the winners had scored seven times in the fifth, bunching four hits, two walks, two stolen bases and two errors. Bob McGinnis started, permitting five runs (two earned), striking out four and walking four. Tom Brigham walked two in his four-inning stint, permitting three runs, of which one was earned. In all, the Crimson outhit Richmond, 11 to 5, but made five errors to its host's three in bowing...