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...subject, Premier W.A.C. Bennett, told him: "If it weren't for one of your people, I wouldn't be here in British Columbia at all." Bennett then explained that he started a hardware store in Kelowna, B.C., in 1930, with the moral and financial support of John Truscott Elson, the vice president of an international hardware distributing firm. He was the father of Robert Truscott Elson, an executive of Time Inc., and the grandfather of Associate Editor John Truscott Elson, who, by coincidence, was sitting in last week as editor of the special news section published every week...
Becker confided in Teammate and Partner Dorothy Hayden. She watched the Englishmen too, and agreed with Becker. Still uncertain, they passed their suspicions on to New York Times Bridge Columnist Alan Truscott and to non-playing U.S. Team Captain John Gerber. All four observed Reese and Schapiro closely; all concurred...
...Code. Late that night, Becker, Mrs. Hayden and Truscott met privately and went to work on the finger code itself. It was Mrs. Hayden who broke it. "Let's see," she said, "on that hand he held up one finger; his hand showed only one heart. Maybe this holds true for other hands." Checking the records of past hands against notes that they had made during the observations, the trio found the pattern. One finger meant a singleton heart. Two fingers together meant two hearts; two spread in a V shape meant five. Three fingers clenched meant three hearts...
...Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...field, and he charges U.S. General Mark Clark with publicity-seeking, buck-passing, and an inferiority complex. His favorites are Britain's General Sir Harold Alexander ("the embodiment of all that is most admired in the English character") and the U.S. commander at Anzio, General Lucian Truscott ("the best American general in Italy...