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...making many of her dreams come true," said Larry C. Flynt, 33, self-promoting publisher of the trashy skin mag Hustler, as he announced that he will be married in a Methodist church next month to Althea Leasure, 22, who was indicted with Flynt earlier this year on charges of obscenity and engaging in organized crime. The bride, who is the associate publisher of Hustler, will wear an ivory dress and veil, and her bridesmaids will be in red. The couple will live in a $375,000 Tudor mansion in Bexley, Ohio, a staid suburb of Columbus, where the good...
...Althea L. Hart...
...serves and precisely stroking his ground shots, Ashe stunningly upset Connors, 6-1, 6-1, 5-7, 6-4, in the all-American final to win tennis' most coveted cup and a $22,000 prize. His achievement has been equaled by only one other black tennis player: Althea Gibson, who won the women's singles at Wimbledon...
Another lapse may or may not have its source in the fact that this is an authorized biography. The author's view of Thurber himself appears to strike a fair balance between necessary admiration and necessary candor. But Thurber's first wife Althea, a campus beauty at Ohio State during his years there, appears as an unpleasant caricature-by no coincidence closely resembling her ex-husband's caricature of the engulfing Thurber Woman. Second Wife Helen Thurber, who shared his life through his years of dimming eyesight and blindness (and who did the authorizing) is treated with...
Some blacks charge that white feminists have already shown evidence of unconscious racism. Althea Scott, a Los Angeles radiology technician who tries to work with feminists to "keep a dialogue going," nevertheless demands to know "how a liberated woman can rush to a meeting leaving her black maid at home to look after the children, get there and look around and ask, 'But where are all our black sisters?' " Editor Lewis sees the Women's Lib movement as nothing more than "a family quarrel between white women and white men." She cautions that outsiders who interfere...