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With Mardi Gras only a week away, Frank Fullmer should be both busy and prosperous. His 53-room Bel-Air Motel (heated swimming pool, free color TV in every room) on a major highway into New Orleans is strategically located to catch the annual stampede of carnival-bound tourists. This year, however, fully one-third of his rooms are empty. "We ought to be filling up about now," he frets. "I guess people just don't want to take a chance this year...
...foil John Major fell behind early in his bout to Dartmouth's Phil Hertz, but then won four straight points to win, 5-3. The bouts in the second round were much closer, many of them went to "la bel"--a 4-4 tie--but the J.V.'s prevailed...
...great gold curtain finally rose for the first act of Bolena, Sills' nightie (successfully rosied) hung in her dressing room, and all, incredibly, was in place on time, ready to be admired. Not given a major New York stage production since 1850, Anna Bolena is a bel canto curio revived to enable Sills to complete her long-planned and justly famed Donizetti trilogy. As with the other queens of the Tudor era, Elizabeth I in Roberto Devereux and the Queen of Scots in Maria Stuarda, Sills proves again that she is a singing actress without peer. Stage Director Tito...
...late Simpson has even come to accept the chilly world of Buffalo. Though he still flees to his $130,000 ranch home in Bel Air, Calif., at every opportunity, he has moved his wife Marguerite and their two children into a Buffalo apartment for the season. "I've even bought furniture for the first time," he says...
...also signed another multi-year contract with the Bills, ending the speculation that he still wanted to be traded to a California team. "At home in Bel Air," he explains, "I looked around at the material things that I have and I thought about what we've gone through in Buffalo and I didn't want to be traded." Confident that the Bills are destined for the Super Bowl in a season or three, he says: "We cried together. Now I want to drink champagne together...