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...roles as player, coach, manager and even broadcaster, Frisch was one of those winning wild men who could make spectators believe that some great drama of life was being played out for their benefit. When he died last week at 74, five weeks after an auto crash near Elkton, Md., he had been out of baseball for more than 16 years, but as far as addicts of the sport were concerned, he never really left...
...store of any kind and only 34 inhabitants. Yet in the past decade, Novel has witnessed a remarkable 800 to 900 weddings. Couples itching to be hitched flock there from all over France and neighboring Switzerland, only a mountain torrent and a small bridge away. What makes Novel the Elkton, Md., or Gretna Green, Scotland, of France is the hamlet's mayor, René Bouvet. An athletic, effervescent man of 42, Bouvet does not believe in the ten-day posting of the bans or the month-long residency required by French law. His motto: "Just...
...conservationist pressures, Secretary Hickel agrees to convert California's last Redwood into a national monument. Hickel personally supervises the task of digging an elevator shaft to its top, where he opens a small heliport. Trish Nixon breaks her engagement to George Hamilton, reported honeymooning with Mark Rudd in Elkton...
Married. Joan Fontaine, 46, best remembered as Laurence Olivier's bedeviled bride in Rebecca; and Alfred Wright Jr., 48, senior editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED; she for the fourth time, he for the third; in Elkton...
Remarried. Grace Metalious, 35, lusty chronicler of the deflowering of modern New England (Peyton Place); and George Metalious, 35, her first husband and father of her three children, who is now guidance director of a Martha's Vineyard, Mass, high school; at Elkton, Md.. only a day after Grace divorced her second husband, Laconia. N.H. Disk Jockey Thomas J. ("T.J. the D.J.") Martin. "After I had left T.J.." explained Novelist Metalious, "I sat for a long time in my house in New Hampshire. Last spring one day George came to my house and said...