Word: chamberlaine
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...imposing out of his old basketball uniform as he was in it, Wilt Chamberlain, 46, is gracing Women's Sports magazine's current spoof of the annual SPORTS ILLUSTRATED bathing-suit issue. Retired from basketball for ten years, the 7-ft. 1-in. former center has been helping to run a women's amateur track and field club that is considered one of the country's best. Says Wilt, who agreed to strip down and lather up in baby oil as a way of promoting women's sports: "I had other offers...
Easily the most complex, probably the most vulnerable, creatures in sports stand around 7 ft. tall. Whimsically, Wilt Chamberlain measured himself at 7 ft. 1 1/16 in., though he was probably taller. From 1959 to 1973, his incredible strength and gentleness were the two pivotal forces in professional basketball, and the second probably confounded Chamberlain as much as the Boston Celtics' Bill Russell ever did. Of Chamberlain's many records (a 50-point average one season, 100 points one game), the most remarkable and descriptive was that in 1,218 career games he never once fouled...
...people at a single table, you sit in the middle, the Queen and I on one side and Nancy and Prince Philip on the other. When the toasts are over, the two of us exit down that table. The footmen pull the chairs back, and the Lord Chamberlain precedes us walking backward. I suddenly saw this tiny figure beside me walking along waving her hand. She's steering him. She said to me, 'You know, we don't get those chairs even, and he could fall over one and hurt himself...
...filmed version, yet another fair Englishwoman walked off with the lead. Rachel Ward, 24 (Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid), is cast as Meggie in The Thorn Birds, a nine-hour ABC-TV "novel for television" based on Colleen McCullough's 1977 bestseller. Richard Chamberlain, 47, plays Meggie's paramour, Man of the Cloth Ralph de Bricassart. Jean Simmons, 53, has the role of her mother Fee, and Barbara Stanwyck, 74, is cast as her Aunt Mary Carson. Only one major part, that of Meggie's husband Luke, is being played by an Australian, Bryan Brown...
...Thatcher pounded the table with the palm of her hand, railing against bowing down to aggression and arguing adamantly for a return to the status quo ante. "You must never forget," she would tell her stunned American guests, evoking the specter of pre-World War II appeasement, "that Neville Chamberlain sat at this very table...