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...Action? Lana Turner, that's who. She plays a bride who makes book for her horseplaying husband, Dean Martin, in this modest attempt to improve an unpromising breed: the formula farce...
Then he took up the saxophone and made like "Cannonball" Adderley, belting out such compositions of his own as Love Without Hope. He supported a troupe of 30 dancing girls and a string of 20 thoroughbreds and worked diligently to improve the breed. Sports are his latest craze. He captains a championship volleyball team and recently dunked in 92 points in a basketball game. Eccentric and mercurial he may be, but Cambodia's Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 41, is also one of the shrewdest leaders in South east Asia...
Improving the Breed. As a freelancer, Havemann is thoroughly atypical. His LIFE retainer, along with his articulate typewriter, shelters him from the premonitions of disaster that assail so many of his colleagues. So avid are magazine publishers for Havemann work that he does not even deal through an agent, except for his books...
Freelancers say that theirs is a spartan life. Havemann agrees. But by his own confession he spends half his life at the track, improving the breed and defending his self-endowed title of world's champion handicapper. Nor does he regard writing as a chore. "I write when I feel like it. I do a lot of gardening while thinking about the story. When I get an idea of the form or how to start, I go in the house and write." Then it comes quickly: he once produced 5,000 words for LIFE in just under seven hours...
...Action? "You can't hate a man for liking animals." That's what the little lady (Lana Turner) says. But the man is her husband (Dean Martin), the animals are horses, and he loves them so much he spends $8,000 in six months to improve the breed. In desperation, Lana decides to save both marriage and money by playing both bookie and bride. Using her husband's partner (Eddie Albert) for a front man, she secretly takes her husband's bets. "When he loses, I'll win," she thinks. "That...