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...weeks ago, at the most important meet of the indoor season-the National A.A.U. championship at Albuquerque-the 17-ft. barrier was finally broken. But not by Pennel. By his 19-year-old roommate, pal and protégé, Bob Seagren...
After five weeks of arguments, Widow Mary Hemingway had her verdict. She had tried to stop publication of a book by A. E. Hotchner (TIME, Feb. 11), a friend and drinking pal of Ernest's during his last years, describing how the prideful lion sometimes fell into black and irrational moods before eventually shooting himself in 1961. In writing these reminiscences, argued "Miss Mary," Hotchner had used Papa's spoken words, which should be considered his property. But New York State Supreme Court Justice Harry Frank ruled that "spontaneous oral conversation with friends" cannot be considered subject...
...escape plan was simple but to the point-Heinrich-Heine-Strasse Checkpoint, that is. Winfried Zippel, 20, an East Berlin mason and truck driver by profession, would steal a construction truck. Then he and his pal, Heinz Trochim, 21, a machinist, would crash the Wall to freedom. It being a warm summer night, the cocky pair tanked up on beer before setting out. The celebration was premature: before they had driven a single block, a pair of East German S.S.D. (State Security) cars squealed to a halt in front of them, and a clutch of cops jumped out. Beery protestations...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Robert Morse plays a guy who is jilted at the altar and therefore decides to take his pal (Robert Goulet) on the leftover wedding trip. Honeymoon Hotel is the name of the comedy, and MGM perpetrated...
Skalla, 25, a petty hood who was to be sentenced this week on a robbery and burglary conviction, finally went to the police and gave the whole plot away. "He's a tough guy," said Skalla of his pal, "and I'm scared to death of him. He told me that if I wouldn't go along with him, he'd take me out in the desert and bury me." The police told him to go along with Bailey. They then staked out the Firestone house, even went so far as to rent for Skalla...