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...consumed a good many apples. So after the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 57, told a group of friends that he'll be peeling off from his third wife, Yvette Diago Powell, 35, the newspapers were full of the gossip that the preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew off to attend a labor conference in Geneva. Right beside...
When Rene Verdon quit in a Gallic huff last month as White House chef, Lady Bird Johnson had already lined up his successor: Henri Haller, 43, Swiss-born executive chef at New York City's Sheraton-East Hotel, better known to gourmets as the old Ambassador (and soon to be torn down for an office building). By last week Haller's security clearance was in, and the White House announced his appointment. He was immediately enmeshed in the big blender of bureaucracy. The White House handout changed his first name to plain old Henry, and Liz Carpenter, Lady...
...quarter of a century, ever since U.S. tennis stars began to play frequently in Mexico City. All along, they have reported that for the first few days of competition their game is poor; after ten days to two weeks they begin to notice improvement, though they still huff and puff. Their observations were confirmed and amplified during last October's "Little Olympics," a preview sports week staged by the Mexican Olympics Committee...
That doesn't help matters any, however, because Blanchard comes home a day early, and Lucille, feeling herself as yet metaphysically uncleaned, tells all. Blanchard departs in a huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove...
Dallas is bound for a championship, but not this year. When Jerry Rhome takes over at quarterback in a season or two, then the Cowboys will be ready to go higher than fourth. Washington has superb performers in Sonny Jurgensen, Bobby Mitchell, Charley Taylor, Paul Krause, and Sam Huff, but the supporting cast will weight them down to fifth...