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...Kennedy was off by almost a century. St. Augustine, Fla., was founded in 1565, as against Boston's birth date of 1630. History Buff Kennedy pulled at least two other historical gaffes. Speaking of Chancellor Adenauer, he said: "Two years after his birth [in 1876], General Custer and 500 of his cavalry were to be wiped out by Sitting Bull and the Sioux Indians." Custer actually made his last stand in 1876. Later, addressing the Irish Parliament, Kennedy presented the Irish Republic with a Civil War battle flag of the Irish Brigade. The brigade, said he, fought at Fredericksburg...
...only protection you have between you and your audience is your concentration," said Carroll Baker. So, concentrating mightily her first day on the set of Harold Robbins' sexaggerated The Carpetbaggers, Actress Baker, 32, emerged buff from the bath and slithered to her vanity table. Playing the role of Hollywood Goddess Rina Marlowe, Carroll felt only a bit unnatural au naturel during the scene's eight takes. Said she: "Nobody made any jokes. Everybody behaved just beautifully." Everybody in this case included a censor who will be on the set full time so as not to miss anything that...
...Rosalind Russell at the film's Los Angeles premiere, "is one of the most remarkable fund raisers in the history of the world." It sounded like good news for 20th Century-Fox, but Roz, alas, wasn't talking about Cleo-she was talking about Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler, 61, wife of the president of the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Co. To raise money for her pet project, a new L.A. Music Center, Buff peddled premiere tickets at $250 apiece, raised $1,094,403, bringing her virtuoso fund-raising performance to a queenly total of some $15 million...
Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff...
...guidance of Thailand's sharpest and most aggressive young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators installed to provide power. Government information teams are criss- crossing the northeast stressing the advantages of Thai unity; even jazz buff King Bhumibol Adulyadej and his beautiful wife, Queen Sirikit, are for the first time journeying into the area...