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...floor in all their gurgly indecipherability. The Top Hat, where Henning is a promising neophyte, has as its resident magician an alcoholic hack. In the role, David Ogden Stiers flutters a few pages of Bob Randall's life less book with a rich parody of Barrymore à la ham. A myopically talent-scouting producer spots this sorry lot and, mesmerized by the redoubtable Henning, books them for Broadway, where they will remain unless the cou gar gets loose some night...
Divorced. Harold Connolly, 42, and Olga Fikotova Connolly, 41, both teachers and veteran Olympic athletes; after 17 years of marriage, four children; in Santa Monica, Calif. The Connollys met as gold medalists (he as a U.S. ham-merthrower, she as a Czechoslovak discus thrower) at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and provided the cold war love story of the year when they married and settled in the U.S. despite the protests of Czechoslovak authorities...
...sure, when the power went out, and with it refrigeration and heat, Q.E. 2 cuisine-never one of her fortes-gave way to a diet consisting largely of tinned ham, smoked tongue, herring, haddock and other delicacies that might have accompanied Scott to the Antarctic. Without air-conditioning in warm waters near the Gulf Stream, cabins were as hot as the food was cold and, because the electric pumps and purifying systems were not working, there was no drinking or bathing water. But in the great rooms of the liner, it was like a mod version of Wellington...
...full swing, with Babe Ruth's face hovering in the background. The mayor and Governor, of course, are planning to be on hand to honor Aaron, and even the Federal Communications Commission in Washington got into the act by permitting special call letters -WH (for Hank) 4DOC-for ham-radio operators who will be informally broadcasting Atlanta games...
Anxious to escape the farmer's lot in Prince Edward County, Va., Fuqua borrowed books on radio through the mail from Duke University and quickly obtained a ham operator's license and then a commercial operator's license...