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...Gable in Cadiz, Ohio, the 12-lb. son of a Pennsylvania Dutchman who had one foot in agriculture, the other in oil. Gable's mother died before he was a year old, and the shy, chubby, awkward, somewhat spoiled only child-who played a Teddy bear in a grade-school play-was raised on a mixture of hazard and earthy practicality. For three years he worked as a tool dresser in an Oklahoma oilfield, climbing 80-ft. derricks to grease the crown block and swinging 16-lb. sledge hammers...
...kidnaping of two women, crimes of sex perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes," as the Los Angeles Times put it last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced...
...voice is almost as versatile as Anne's; she supplied the young boy's tones for Playwright Gibson's recorded offstage "voices." Although she turns 13 this week-notwithstanding the pressagentry that kept her ten years old for three years-Patty backstage is still often the grade-school child, an inveterate lap sitter. Onstage she is a polished professional who can think on her feet. Once, when a set door stuck and Anne Bancroft swore helplessly under her breath, Patty promptly began making her "noises," the grunts of the speechless, to cover Anne's indiscretion. When...
...Detroit, but he is seldom there. He fishes in Bimini, skis in Norway, once slept with Hillsdale in a Santa Anita stable. His need for guts came early. He was a promising athlete in his youth-a rugged bull of a kid who was forever picking fights with his grade-school classmates, later channeled his energies into football in Massillon, Ohio. His athletic promise faded tragically when, at 15, he came in contact with a high-tension wire. The accident mangled his left hand, severely creased his skull, left him incapacitated for two years. Since then, Big Smitty has flung...
...ollege campuses and grade-school playgrounds in all parts of the U.S. last week, youngsters - and many of their elders - were laughing at a new kind of joke that had spread across the nation with appalling thoroughness. Called variously sick stories, gruesome jokes or Bloody Marys, these gags get their laughs by making fun of decapitations, amputation, disease, death - in short, every variety of horror-provoking subject dealing with physical disability. The jokes range from the mild to the bloodthirsty. Samples...