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...gesture toward royalty, Manhattan's Regency Hotel ordered a custom-sewn flag of Monaco. Then arrived Princess Grace, 33, and Prince Rainier, 39, and suddenly everything went All-American. The Grimaldis wanted TV-and five sets were sent up, one for each room. Their usual breakfast order was ham 'n' eggs, with oatmeal for the children (Caroline, 6, and Albert, 5). When supplies ran short, Princess Grace herself would traipse off to a nearby grocery. The night she attended a posh art show, Daddy went to the circus-and the youngsters stayed home nursing colds...
Chief to the love-loran, and a joy every minute she is on stage, is Constancy (Melanie Adams), who yearns unrequited for Dr. Daly (Joel Martin), Vicar of Ploverleigh. Constancy and Dr. Daly very nearly dominate the entire evening and to no ill effect. Miss Adams has plenty of ham and an admirable voice, she can leer lasciviously and make a mock-tragic aria sound like decent Mozart. Joel Martin sang more clearly and yet with more spirit than most people speak...
Back in 1961, leathery, ham-handed Farmer Hamrick started playing golf with fellow members of the local Lions Club on the only public golf course in the county. That gave him the idea of opening a course of his own. "I just started planting grass instead of cotton," he says. To raise capital, he sold 28 cattle for $2,800, mortgaged his property. With the help of a golf pro and an equipment salesman, he laid out and landscaped a nine-hole course on about 60 acres. Soon golfers flocked to his place and paid to play - $1 on weekdays...
...Lawd Today was never published during his life, and it predates Native Son, which established his reputation. It tells of a dreadful day in the dreadful life of Jake Jackson, a faceless phantom of insulted life from Chicago's black ghetto. Greedy, but with never enough ham hocks and collard greens, lecherous, but always frustrated, aggressive, but always a victim (even to his beaten, tumor-plagued wife, who cuts him up bad at the end of a long, long day), Jake is no left-wing stereotype of a good man. He and society match each other in crude nastiness...
Until recently most broadcasts have been limited to short distances, since the FCC permitted ham stations to operate only on 50 watts. This year they have raised it to 1,000 watts (WNBC New York operates on 10,000 watts). Under certain weather conditions, however, remarkable things happen. Larry Mueller once made visual contact with a fellow in Fort Recovery Ohio, 170 miles away...