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Endless publicity had made it abundantly plain: Actor Richard Burton had been in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, for six months making a new movie, Night of the Iguana. Nor was it any secret that his wife Sybil had felt no urge to join him there. But last week Sybil Burton traveled to Mexico by proxy. A local lawyer appeared for her in a State of Jalisco court, and she divorced Burton for "cruelty." He will marry Liz Taylor "as soon as possible-the sooner the better," after she sheds Eddie Fisher. For Liz, 31, Dick will...
...designed a new Baths of Caracalla, the manufacturers are sidling up to it-apparently inspired in part by the glimpses of Roman high laving indulged in by Cleopatra Taylor and Antony Burton in Shakespeare's latest spectacular. The Crane Co. has taken the plunge with a line of sunken tubs, dubbed the Marc Antony (6 ft. long and "rich in majestic beauty"), the Caesar ("once exclusive with emperors"), and the Centurion ("a masterful tribute to the mighty Roman legions...
...Gahan punted out to the Yale 45- line, but from there it took the Elis, under the direction of quarterback McCarthy, only eight plays to tally. Bartlett scored from two yards out, Burton converted, and the Crimson seven points behind after only seven of play...
Most audiences would dispute her, and so would her fellow actors. After a season with the Old Vic, she played opposite Olivier in Rhinoceros. "Marvelous," said Sir Larry. Richard Burton was wary of doing a scene with her in The V.I.P.s and, as he had feared, she took the scene away from him. "Grand larceny it was," he said without rancor...
...Wright has broken its monopoly in color TV tubes by building a plant to supply half of Zenith's tubes. Joe Wright has an unlikely background for an executive. Son of a Montana dentist, he worked through law school as an aide to Montana Senator Burton K. Wheeler in the 1930s, later became an antitrust lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission, where he tangled with many businessmen-including U.S. Steel Counsel Roger Blough, who lost to Wright in a steel-pricing case. Changing sides in 1952, Wright was hired as Zenith's counsel with the job of cracking...