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...hiker who has been picked up by the king of the loners--the long-haul truck driver--can tell you, loners are often the most friendly people going. Jack, who knows me by my first name, is a jokester and friendly story-teller. Although I may look like a clown and invite razzing, I have been teased in a good natured way by the other drivers. In short, I think those drivers are perky turkeys. They may be turkeys for taking a monotonous job, but it certainly has not ground down their personalities to the lonely drones that were pictured...
Married. Red Skelton, 60, consummate TV clown whose alter egos include flap-footed Clem Kaddiddlehopper and threadbare Freddie the Freeloader; and Lothian Toland, 35, sportswoman whose father was cinematographer for Citizen Kane and Wuthering Heights; he for the third time, she for the first; in San Francisco...
Wine Time. While Joe Tomaszewski's boys play the Happy-Go-Lucky Polka, two representatives of the Richfield American Legion Clown Club do their turns for Bernie's 100-odd invited guests and scores of passersby. Bernie figures the festivities have cost him $400, which he paid out of his purple checkbook (he writes in purple...
...Bobby Riggs is a menace to tennis. His antics demean the game, as does his attitude toward women participants. I would like to see this clown prince beaten into the ground by a female opponent...
Fast-Food Pharaoh. The man behind this success is named not Ronald McDonald, the ketchup-topped clown celebrated in company advertising, but Ray A. Kroc, a crusty, saltily spoken 71-year-old Chicagoan who is rather amused to find himself the pharaoh of fast food. "When I was a little boy, my father took me to a phrenologist," he recalls. "I was told that I would make my best living either in the food business or as a musician. You know, I've done both." After serving alongside Walt Disney in the World War I Red Cross Ambulance Corps...