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Marriage Revealed. F. (for Francis) Lee Bailey, 39, criminal lawyer with a penchant for headline cases; and Lynda Hart, 25, a charter airline stewardess; he for the third time, she for the first; on Aug. 26 in Des Moines, with Iowa Governor Robert Ray and Captain Ernest Medina, Bailey's erstwhile client and current business associate in attendance...
...come from unveiling more than his anatomy. Until two years ago, he says, "I was the tight, constipated actor. I just stood there with my No. 3 virile look and never took chances." Then he drew a guest spot on the Johnny Carson show and revealed an unexpected penchant for putdowns, mostly of himself ("My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave"). After that, Reynolds was invited to air his gift of glib on a flock of other talk shows and comedy hours. After seeing him on the tube, Director John Boorman asked...
Texas empire builders like Ross Perot, James Ling and Haroldson L. Hunt have a penchant for headlines -but D. (for Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving...
...Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas, he began attending courses given by some P.O.W. professors. Lüst soon developed a liking for physics, which he continued to study in both Germany and the U.S. after the war. During his internment, he also showed a penchant for Hogan's Heroes type of pranks: he and fellow prisoners snatched up wandering turtles, painted their shells with swastikas and then let them crawl over the Texas countryside...
...short, wiry man with a sharp tongue, Vann had a penchant for being in the thick of the fighting. In late April, two helicopters were shot out from under him before he managed to rescue several American advisers from the surrounded headquarters of the 22nd ARVN Division at Tan Canh. In the last weeks of his life, Vann dedicated himself to the defense of Kontum. "There is nothing else for him now," TIME Correspondent John Mulliken wrote recently, "but the saving of Kontum. Like a French colonial, he has no real ties any more with home. He will live...