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...exwife, sometime Burlesqueen Anita Roddy-Eden, 34, and India-born Cinemactor John (Tonight We Raid Calais) Sutton. Making a grand entrance at the scene of the civil ceremony, a hotel library, Anita gazed fondly at her discarded mate and his successor, cooed: "Darlings, I want you both!" Quipped the groom: "Have you got an extra wedding ring, Tommy? I forgot mine." Later, Playboy Manville recalled the nuptials with elation: "It was the happiest day of my life-a wedding where I did not get married...
Monkeyshining Paradox. Emily, by impersonating the bride, thoughtfully intervenes to save Fatigay from marriage to the heartless Amy. ("Marriage between cousins is perfectly legal," says the clergyman when the imposture is discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
Building a team as good as the Truckers in one season meant competing for talent with the five other fine N.I.B.L. teams* and bargaining against the moneymen of pro basketball as well. Kolowich hired former Notre Dame Footballer Jerry Groom to beat the drum and brought aggressive Johnny Dee from the University of Alabama to coach. Backed by the generous assets of DC Trucking's multimillion-dollar business, Groom and Dee peddled some convincing arguments in the fleshpots of college basketball...
When the Minneapolis Lakers made lanky Terry Rand their second-draft choice and offered him a $7,500 contract, Groom and Dee made a somewhat different pitch: Did Rand want to study law? Well, Denver U. had a fine law school, and an executive trainee with DC Trucking would have time for classes as well as practice sessions and some 30 games of basketball a season. A trainee would get $400 a month salary plus all the fringe benefits, including a sizable bonus. And who knows? Rand might like Denver Chicago and go on to make transcontinental trucking his career...
Last week struggling Green River finally found a groom. Running to the rescue came 56-year-old Jessop Steel, a Washington (Pa.) company which in just eight years has bounced back from a disaster itself...