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...show in Rennes is a warmhearted family album of portraits and sketches of the people and things that surrounded the crippled painter after he fell off a chair at the age of 13 and was doomed to live the rest of his days as a short-legged, gloriously talented freak. "L'oncle Henri," says Lautrec's niece. Countess Attems, "is as alive in my memory as though I had seen him yesterday. Afraid of him? Was Snow White frightened by her dwarfs...
...less successful-and a lot less tall. A 7-ft. man walking down the street is the kind of oddity that children point at and drunks snarl at; he has been asked "How's the weather up there?" in a dozen languages, and people have been calling him "freak" to his face all his life. He even sticks out, drawing all eyes, on a court full of huge men. Says his friend Bill Russell: "Wilt is not only very famous; he's very obvious. He has a special problem. Mickey Mantle, or Roger Maris, or even Willie Mays...
Also on the injured list is fullback Lou Williams. The defensive ace cut himself in a freak accident last week and will be carrying 17 stitched in his right knee when he steps onto the Business School held at 3 p.m. today...
...eared formula for Irish comic fiction: to one seedy slice of life from an impoverished Irish boyhood add one outrageous old character who swears a blue streak, acts like a freak, and is lovable as all get out. Stir in plenty of Irish whisky, a peck of troubles, assorted downtrodden womenfolk, a hard-drinking priest, plenty of disputatious talk about the church...
...ENTERTAINMENT will range from the Old Vic and the Philadelphia Symphony to Lawrence Welk and Elvis Presley. A $2,000,000 midway, unhappily called "The Gayway." will provide thrills, rides and freak shows. And of course the fair will have its undraped girls, in a "Las Vegas-type revue" to be produced by one Gracie Hansen, an entrepreneuse who promises "a daring show with some nudity, but all in good taste." Mrs. Hansen admits, however, that her last production, in a Cascade Mountains logging town, proved "too adult for the P.T.A...