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...attended Riverside Junior College in California. He performed well, applying his military-bred sense of detail to his courses. Hamlin wanted to go further, so he decided to transfer. "I asked my guidance counselor, 'What's the best school?' I had joined the Marines because it was the best outfit. He said, almost jokingly, 'Well, the real best is Harvard.' It was the only place I applied...
Since there is nothing like a dame, only a cockeyed optimist could confuse Bob Hope with the real thing. The comedian shed his golf togs and donned a tropically fruity outfit for this week's NBC-TV special celebrating his 78th birthday and the 40th anniversary of the U.S.O. During the taping at West Point before 25,000 cadets, officers and onlookers, Hope sprang eternal. He sparred with Sugar Ray Leonard and teamed up with Mary Martin, 67, to reprise a number from South Pacific. "If I entered the Miss U.S.A. contest,"said Hope, "I'd probably...
...take him to a secluded wood for his daily three-mile run one morning, he gently protested, to no avail, that he preferred jogging the streets near his hotel in Bonn. Later, he joked that the Germans had probably insisted he get out of town because his tattered jogging outfit was so indecorous. Unlike some of his predecessors at Defense, he has none of the arrogance or aloofness that so often offends Congress. Says one Capitol Hill aide: "It's awfully nice not to have a Secretary of Defense who puffs on a pipe and talks down...
...state legislature in Oklahoma is now considering measures to curb the thefts, including a law allowing police to halt oil tanker trucks on the highways and demand to see papers that prove the origin of the load. Meanwhile, several oil firms have engaged an outfit called Oilfield Security Patrol Inc. to keep heavy guard over their well sites. Company President Jack Gibson, an ex-policeman, is afraid that curbing the thievery could get rough. Says he: "When a guy is sitting there with $8,000 worth of hot oil in his truck, he is not going to let someone talk...
...efficient outfit...