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Conqueror's End. A careful man who never smoked or drank, Martini seldom visited his empire, and, when he did, was surrounded by bodyguards. While his wife whisked about Paris in a snow-white Chevrolet Bel Air and spent her evenings backstage at the Folies Pigalle, Martini stayed snugly at home in the suburban chateau, where every visitor was screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying...
Stories & Games. All the lights in his 27-room Bel Air mansion can be turned on from a single switch, and they are generally left on from sunset to sunrise, for Red is admittedly afraid of the dark. He has the gates of his estate bugged so that he can hear in his bedroom anyone who might be prowling about, and another electronic device tells him when people have entered his property. He once discouraged a visit from CBS's Person to Person show, which he describes as "kinda nosy." He prefers to keep the place to himself...
Falling Like Rain. Skelton, the Bel Air millionaire who recently gave away one of his three Rolls-Royces, was born so poor that he sang for pennies in the streets of Vincennes, Ind. when he was seven. His father, a circus clown, had died before Richard Skelton was born, and when Red was ten he ran away from home to join a show-business type known as Dr. R. E. Lewis-an itinerant medicine man who peddled a solution of water, sugar and Epsom salts called the Hot Springs System Tonic. Mississippi showboats, minstrel shows and vaudeville later gave...
...Gentle." Even more important, Johnson has shown a monastic dedication to sport that would please the most spiritual of Olympic enthusiasts. He has shrugged off crippling injuries. In competition he has cheered on his most dangerous opponents. Says the Rev. Louis Evans, pastor of Los Angeles' Bel Air Presbyterian Church: "This is a most remark able human being. He is as gentle as a child, and yet he is tremendously competitive...
...Doctor Vincent A. Beláunde, Peruvian diplomat, president, U.N. General Assembly LL.D...