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...benefit for them. Next week in Manhattan, blonde dynamo Betty Hutton, 53, who hurtled through some 20 musicals in the '40s and '50s, will be the big-name attraction at a $50 and $100 a plate dinner to raise money for St. Anthony's Church in Portsmouth, R.I. On hand for the occasion will be some 300 of her friends and admirers, including Arlene Dahl, George Jessel and Kate Smith. Betty had fetched up on the rectory doorstep last February, stone-broke and despondent about four divorces and a dead-end acting career. Taken...
Those are but a sample of the disasters that have struck a fleet of 17 boats competing in the year's most grueling sporting event-the first round-the-world sailing race. Since they tacked out from Portsmouth, England, last September, the competitors have rounded the Cape of Good Hope, crossed the storm-tossed Indian Ocean to Australia, and completed the dreary, dangerous, downhill passage round Cape Horn to reach Rio de Janeiro. This week they will weigh anchor to begin the final leg to Portsmouth, where the winner* will collect no cash-just a modest silver trophy, some...
After the last anchor chain has rattled through the hawsepipe in Portsmouth, a question will remain: What has it all proved? That man can sail round the globe has been known since Magellan's time, and that he can do it solo, since Slocum's. The boats now competing cost a fortune, and the race has cost three lives. Having exacted entry fees of .?150, Whitbread has at least shown that it can get an ocean of publicity for a pannikin of small change...
...eight-year prison term for trying to boost $40 from a collection box belonging to the favorite charity of the C.O.'s wife. The 'lifers" (career men) who have been assigned to escort him from the Norfolk naval base to the brig in Portsmouth, N.H., despise their job. No one is about to burst into a carefree song-and-dance number in the course of such a journey...
Major John Hoskins, 37, of Portsmouth, Ohio, triggered the last bomb, a 500-pounder, over Khmer insurgent bunkers 25 miles northeast of Phnom-Penh. Flying alongside him was Captain Lonnie Ratley III, 29, of Plant City, Fla., who moments later fired the last