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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PAGE hitchhiked into Southeast Asia, worked at odd jobs, from giving drawing lessons to teaching English, turned into one of the best photographers covering the Viet Nam war, and last week became the first allied correspondent to be wounded on three separate occasions and live to tell the tale. See PRESS...
Before he fetched up there, Page had survived being bushwhacked by Burmese bandits, "gone dead broke seven times," sold ice cream in Bombay, taught English in Bangkok, worked in hotels everywhere, given driving lessons anywhere, and even smuggled a little opium. Once in Laos, he persuaded U.P.I, to take him on as a stringer photographer, though he had no professional experience. He soon moved to Viet Nam, turned freelancer, and has been covering the war ever since-except for a few brief vacations like the one to Singapore, where he began a motorbike ride back to Saigon through Laos, Cambodia...
...Ellington, Judy Collins and The Animals have sold out the 4,250 seats (at $1 each) so often that the producers have had to schedule double performances in 16 shows, are already planning another series next year with expanded seating. Another new attraction is the Manhattan Opera Company, whose English-language productions include an Aida that is set in the present-day South, with Ramfis as Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and Aida his Ne gro servant. Dance buffs will get their chance in two weeks when the park's Shakespeare troupe, now in its twelfth season...
...which makes Minnesota's Tony Oliva, 25, just about the luckiest hitter in baseball-and close to the best. In 1964, as a baby-faced Cuban farm lad who spoke practically no English ("Tony talks so bad," cracked Fellow Cuban Zoilo Versalles, the Twins' shortstop, "that he even says 'ain't' in Spanish"). Outfielder Oliva hit 32 home runs and batted .323-thus becoming the first rookie ever to win the American League's batting championship. Last year, playing with a bad knee and a painfully bruised hand, he drove in 98 runs...
Born in Southampton, Ont., of a Scottish father and a mother of English descent, Thomson was a bright but restless student. He left Canada at 18 without finishing high school, headed south of the Canadian border, turned up at the home of an uncle in the Queens borough of New York City. Interested in figures and bookkeeping, he went to Wall Street for a job, was hired by Merrill as a runner at $14 a week. "I remember the salary well," says Thomson, whose present annual income is over $100,000. "I couldn't live...