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...wizard name changers now practicing the craft-Agent Henry Willson, the man who turned Marilyn Louis into Rhonda Fleming, Francis McGowan into Rory Calhoun, Arthur Gelien into Tab Hunter, Robert Moseley into Guy Madison, and-his great mind wandering from the New Jersey Palisades to the Strait of Gibraltar-Roy Fitzgerald into Rock Hudson...
Looking more like a palsied pensioner than a fire-breathing general, Delgado limped off to misadventure. He sailed across the Strait of Gibraltar-after losing two days because he missed one ferry-then drove to Seville to meet his resourceful Argentine traveling companion. Mrs. Arajaryr Campos, 27. In the lining of her overcoat was sewn one of Delgado's flashier uniforms-for use in the event that Salazar's 33-year regime were to crumble in the face of his visit...
During the last glacier age 10,000 to 25,000 years ago, sluggish rivers of Arctic ice created a temporary land crossing between Siberia and Alaska at the Bering Strait. Anthropologists have long agreed that this intercontinental bridge-which vanished when the glaciers melted-was crossed by the earliest known North American settlers, who moved far down the continent in search of game (stone spearheads 100 centuries old were unearthed in Folsom, N. Mex., in 1926). Last week, to the existing evidence of the ice-age migration from Asia, a Columbia University anthropologist added an important new find: the oldest...
Last July the Tucker was one of the ships stationed in the Formosa Strait to guard President Eisenhower's way. We could see Quemoy and hear in the distance the muted thunder of the 88,000-gun salute. In January we were part of the special striking force assembled and deployed from Okinawa on New Year's Day. On Easter day we watched and waited in readiness on the South China...
...business administration, returned to the West Coast to work briefly for an accounting firm-and to marry Former Classmate Margaret Craig-and skipped back once more to Harvard, where he taught for three years. As he traveled, he carried with him a reputation as a precise, studious, even strait-laced sort of man who could read a paper in a flash and memorize it. He even took the trouble to amass a card file of jokes suitable for all classroom occasions, and noted carefully on each card the date the joke was told and the class reaction (sample: "GOATS-GHOSTS...