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...inexplicable-British titles: "British Ambassador Sir David Ormsby Gore is a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, neither of whom ever existed. I am a Knight Commander of the British Empire, which has ceased to exist. And our two recent colleagues from Jamaica and Trinidad are Knights Bachelor, with wives and families." Concluded Sir Howard: "Such an illogical people-no wonder the French didn't want them in the Common Market...
...Good Glove Man." After taking his bachelor of arts degree with honors in history, Pearson briefly stuffed sausages in the Hamilton, Ont., branch of Armour & Co. (he was later to be accused by the Soviet news agency, Tass, of starting his career in an armaments factory). Saturdays, he played third base for the semi-pro Guelph Maple Leafs. "No batter," says Teammate Dink Carroll, now a Montreal Gazette sports columnist, "but a good glove man." When promoted to clerkship in Armour's Chicago fertilizer works, he applied for, and got, a scholarship to Oxford...
Breyer almost steals the show. But he doesn't, and one of the main reasons is the equally delightful Nick Bunnin, who plays Amy's bachelor uncle. Bunnin is a perfect dirty old man, complete with leers, roving hands, and a lecherous, evil chuckle...
Though he is rich, famous and a bachelor. Pelé lives simply and quietly. He has no plans to get married-and no girl friend, for that matter. "I am married to my country." he says. For fun. he wanders down to Santos' beaches, or joins a get-up soccer game with the local kids -much as baseball's Willie Mays loved to play in New York stickball games. "I live for soccer, only for soccer." says Pele. "I have no time for anything else...
Thimmesch spent so many hours last week before and after the fight with Clay that he no longer had to suspect that some publicity man must be making up Clay's vivid quotes. He ended the week helping out with the cooking in Clay's Louisville bachelor quarters, and enjoying himself on "the kind of assignment you don't have to concentrate on, just endure-just keeping up with...