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...considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious Princess Baba announced an unfulfilled scheme of buying a rival kingdom to Sarawak and calling it Babaland...
Readers of LIFE, however, recognized him at a glance. He was the Angel, an awesome, Continental wrestler introduced pictorially to the U. S. by LIFE last September, while he was still being billed in England as "that ferocious monstrosity, not a human being, but 20 stone of brutality." The Angel is now in the U. S. to try his particular brand of might & mayhem in the no-holts-barred roughhouse that passes in the U. S. for wrestling...
...rate, a touring, Lithuanian-born U. S. wrestler named Carl Pojello met him in Singapore in 1936 in Le Laurier bar. One handshake was enough for Pojello. He took the Angel to Paris, taught him all he knew about the U. S. catch-as-catch-can, or British "all-in," wrestling business. Since then, in 140 matches in six countries, according to uncontradicted reports, the Angel has been unbeatable...
Buffalo-built, his massive head set forward on wrestler's shoulders, Myron Taylor of Quaker stock, will be the first industrialist to match minds with the thoroughly schooled and skillful Catholic diplomats...
Thomas, captain and outstanding wrestler of the Yardlings last winter, will be fighting for the Crimson at 145. One of the best intra-squad matches of the year is going to be between Thomas and Bruce Richardson, last year's incumbent in the 145-pound position, but Richardson has been laid up this week with a sprained shoulder...