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...road trips Ruth tended to forget that he was married at all.) Fans and teammates loved him, exulting in his excesses, empathizing with his small-boy penitence when disciplined by the ball club, and appreciating, as perhaps only those who follow baseball can, the way he cocked his bat, stepped into a pitch, swung as if to clear the bases. Today only a handful of Americans can identify Roger Maris, who broke the Babe's season record by hitting 61 home runs back in 1961. But everyone, even those born after his death from cancer in 1948, knows about...
...matters that the film makers have chosen to keep pretty much to themselves. Giddy fun, usually provided by such matinee fodder, is also in short supply. The star is Joe Don Baker, a sort of upright Francis the Talking Mule, who appeared in Walking Tall wielding a baseball bat and busting heads. Here, as a Hong Kong soldier-of-fortune, he betrays an enthusiasm for breaking glass, either by shattering windshields with a two-by-four or hurling people through skylights. He performs all these feats with a great deal of gusto, but no finesse. He is fortunately not called...
...loose chemise dominated almost all the Paris presentations. Givenchy brought forth a somewhat slimmer and more refined version with hems stopping just two inches below the knees. Dior's Marc Bohan played a variation on the theme, dubbed the Big Droop, while Cardin swooped in with an offbeat bat-winged dress featuring sleeves starting at the hem. Even Courreges, daddy of the mini, decorously draped the knee in this year's designs, threatening to leave mankind with nothing but fond memories of leg-watching...
Come January, early-morning television will once again be burnished by a blond. Not the ill-fated Sally Quinn but John V. Lindsay, 52. ABC is putting up to bat against NBC's highly rated Today show their own news-cum-interviews program, AM America. Former New York City Mayor Lindsay will appear once a week as a guest commentator and interviewer. After many years' experience in amateur theatricals, Including political conventions, Matinee Idol Lindsay will also make his movie debut soon. This week in Paris he joins the cast of Otto Preminger's Rosebud, playing...
Unfortunately, another faction is trying to gnaw away impartially at all of them, without regard to race, creed, color or state of mental health. It is a herd of vampire bats, who are understandably annoyed at the way their neighborhood is being run down. They are rather more clever than you would give them credit for - short-circuiting the lights at will, squirming through air-conditioning ducts to bite the folks good night. After a while, indeed, one begins to suspect that they had a chaw or two on the wiring of the computer that picked this lot of survival...