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Into Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports rolled rail cars laden with thousands of tons of wheat bound for Russia. At pierside, nine ships waited to load. But for nine days the wheat moved no farther. Thomas W. ("Teddy") Gleason, 63, president of the International Long shoremen's Association, had ordered his stevedores to touch not one kernel of cargo. The great wheat deal, it seemed, was stymied...
This book has its faults, but none that couldn't be straightened out by Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The story is to poker what The Hustler was to pool...
...Jackie Gleason, 47, weighs 258 Ibs., and he likes being the biggest. To indulge that craving, CBS-TV offered its giant ego $6,000,000 (a $1,000,000 raise) to entice him into one more season. Out of that sum, Jackie's Peekskill Enterprises will pay all costs of producing the shows, but what Gleason likes is the size of the price tag. "I'm told it's the biggest one-year contract in the history of television," he chortled. And under the terms agreed on, he is going to try moving the whole show down...
...JACKIE GLEASON SHOW: THE AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Anniversary program presenting highlights of The Fat One's 35 years in show business. Otto Preminger and Art Carney are cohosts...
Anything for a pal, and so George ("Bullets") Durgom hopped on a golf cart to spin around the Paramount lot with Jackie Gleason, 47, last June. Awaaaay they went, recalled Gleason's former manager, in a suit he just filed. The only problem was that Gleason was "intoxicated from excessive use of alcoholic beverages," was thus "an incompetent and unfit driver of golf carts." At last, after careening all over, the cart overturned. Bullets (150 Ibs.) fell on the ground; the Great One (290 Ibs.) and the golf cart (500 Ibs.) fell on Bullets. This resulted in "severe...