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...network, believing that he was one of the industry's formative performers, tried to blow his valedictory* into a gala, but Jack felt otherwise. "I want to get out the easiest way possible," he decreed. "They say I'm emotional, and I am. I don't know what I'd do if I saw people around." So when Paar came on, there was no studio audience. All that could be seen was a tieless Jack and his German Shepherd, Leica, seated midway back in the taping theater...
...thank you. Right up to the eighth month of her pregnancy, Greece's Danish-born Queen Anne-Marie, 18, has been dashing about Athens with her husband King Constantine, 25, visiting galleries, strolling hand-in-hand through the park, dining in public restaurants and attending scores of gala functions. At last the world's youngest and loveliest queen sailed with Queen Mother Frederika for Corfu. There, in Mon Repos, the royal family's summer palace by the sea, she will await the birth of her first child, expected some null in late June or early July...
...wind on the face of the waters. Approaching Cairo, a Pakistani International Airlines Boeing 720B, inaugurating a new Karachi-Cairo-London run, developed engine trouble and crashed. All but six of its 130 passengers and crew were killed, including 21 Pakistani newsmen. "It was the will of God," said Gala Alkarini, one survivor, as seven baboons that had been in the luggage compartment capered, unharmed, amid the smoking ruins...
FRED: Spring Weekend--Gala Festivities, Boat Rides, Bacchanalia, and all that...
When in Rome, she does as she always does. There were some boos after the first act of a gala opening-night Norma in 1958, and Soprano Maria Callas stomped out without further ado. So the Rome Opera canceled her contract for three additional performances. Their mistake. The reason for her hasty exit, said La Callas, was a sore throat, and a Roman court that examined her medical certificates agreed. The opera management now has to honor her original contract and pay the diva $2,800 for the operas she didn't sing. With Callas, even silence is golden...