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...Eternal City was growing weary of the eternal triangle. "This vamp who destroys families and shucks husbands like a praying mantis," said Rome's Il Tempo, should be tossed out of Italy as an "undesirable." But Elizabeth Taylor, 30, and Richard Burton, 36, only went as far as a fishing village on the Tyrrhenian coast...
...days later, Liz was back in Rome, and back in the hospital-recuperating from a lovers' quarrel that included what looked mighty like a black eye. At that, blonde Sybil Burton turned up in town to see if she could bring her wayward Welshman to heel, had their four-year-old daughter Kate flown in for added persuasion. "I'm finished," wailed Liz, gobbling sedatives "for my nerves." Not quite. 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra still has the big suicide scene to shoot. The asp was waiting...
Both outfields are extremely strong and Detroit is by no means at a disadvantage. Rocky Colavito (.290, 45 HR's, 140 RBI's) has as much sheer power as anyone in the league. Fleet Billy Burton (.257, 22 SB's) remains near the top in a league of brilliant defensive center-fielders. Kaline in right hit .325 last year and led the league in doubles...
...rest of the world-burned with prurient curiosity. Last week, while unconcernedly directing her lawyer to terminate the services of hangdog Fourth Husband Eddie Fisher, Elizabeth Taylor, 30, tirelessly sought to turn a more prideful head. Liz's latest quarry, the Mark Antony to her Cleopatra. Richard Burton, seemed cheerfully prepared to indulge her exhibitionistic binges of togetherness on the Via Veneto and to relish his odd-hour neighborly access to her villa. But he was careful to keep the home fires burning with a weekend rendezvous in Paris with Wife Sybil. As the tasteless, tedious charade wore...
Emerging from a three-day "rest and a general checkup" in a private psychiatric hospital in Manhattan, Vagabond Crooner Eddie Fisher protested at a high-pitched press conference that the only romance between Wife Elizabeth Taylor and her Cleopatra costar, Richard Burton, was onscreen. Laughing off rumors of breakup and breakdown as "preposterous, ridiculous and absolutely false," Fisher predicted a similar public disclaimer from Liz, but after a 15-minute transatlantic call, returned to the conference with a stricken look. "You know," he warbled in the most pitiable understatement of the week, "you can ask a woman to do something...