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...Army colonel who left Korea soon after Ronnie's birth to return to the solider comfort of a wife and two legitimate children back home. Ronnie's mother was a puffy, ailing, gold-toothed Korean woman well on in years. After a year of vain efforts to keep Ronnie clothed and fed on the profits of prostitution, she died of malnutrition and tuberculosis...
Money & Prizes. The rarest of the rare ones is You Bet Your Life, a quiz show that is little more than an excuse for Groucho Marx, in his cheerful way, to insult six contestants a night. Other unemployed funnymen have tried in vain to duplicate Groucho's success. Fred Allen just does not seem right on NBC's Judge for Yourself, and Herb Shriner on CBS's Two for the Money is far from rivaling Groucho's hold on his audience. When the wit falters, quiz shows usually try to make up for it by giving...
There are no words to describe the pathos of the American position in the world today. We stand with arms folded across a powerful chest while cries for help keep coming from the enslaved, the beaten and the dying . . . We look in vain for leaders with guts. That is why millions salute McCarthy. Not because he is doing any good. But because he is out there fighting, FIGHTING...
...from Santona's lighthouse. Then the Flower's engine sputtered to a stop. The youngest son tinkered with the dead machinery. "Quick, Manuel, or we'll be caught," urged Candido. But the helpless craft was already broaching to the sea. As the other boys tried in vain to rig a sail, the waves were already crashing on the deck. Ashore, where the lighthouse keeper had spread the alarm, Santona's fishermen tried to launch lifeboats, but the angry seas tossed them back like corks onto the jagged reefs. Behind them black-shawled women gathered...
...Your Information. In Casino, Australia, after trying in vain to dynamite an office safe in the Northern Cooperative Meatworks, the thieves gave up, left behind a note for the management: "DANGER, unexploded charge in bottom keyhole...