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...about his distinguished guests. Suddenly, at dinner time, the lobby elevator door popped open and Fidel Castro-arms waving, beard wagging, voice rising and falling with rage-stormed out of the hotel with his pileous crew pounding after him. Behind him he left a string of rooms soaked with cigar smoke, strewed .with molding food, and torn asunder-and Owner Spatz with his ulcer acting up again...
Married. John Robert Russell, 43, tax-pinched 13th Duke of Bedford, who since opening his ancestral Woburn Abbey estate to the public in 1955 has entertained more than 2,000,000 visitors-including a nudists' convention-at 35? a head; and Nicole Milinair, 40, comely, cigar-smoking, French-born TV producer and World War II Resistance worker, who remarked upon receipt of her diamond engagement ring: "It's a nice piece of glass, isn't it?"; he for the third time, she for the second; in Ampthill, England...
...piece orchestra and no one to conduct it. I suddenly found myself playing the piano and conducting the orchestra, and I loved it." For the next year she studied under Vladimir Brailowsky, then made the rounds of the summer tent musicals, absorbing both the inevitable gags ("Gee," cracked one cigar-puffing cellist, "you're the first longhair I ever enjoyed working for") and the experience. In three years she handled 20 scores, from Me and Juliet to The King...
...travel-weary U.S. motorist has been conditioned to think of food-and a chance to let the kids out of the car-when he spots a roof of bright orange tile along the highway. This "landmark for hungry Americans" is the trademark of Howard Dearing Johnson, a onetime cigar salesman who has become a part of Americana (teenagers call his places "Hojos") by catering to the common denominator of U.S. taste and haste. Johnson, 63, not only controls the world's largest restaurant chain (607), but has set up motor lodges in 24 states, now sells frozen and canned...
When the Queensland Turf Club Committee invited Dean Baddeley to the races, he obtained permission from Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse, turned up at the track in a felt hat, suede shoes and a striped suit, puffing a cigar, and proceeded to clean up. The ungloomy dean won six 55? bets in eight races for a total profit...