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...with money to lose seek him out; he looks like a cross between Hud and Nathan Detroit. Wealthy businessmen challenge him, knowing that they will lose; it is something of a distinction to be skinned by one of the world's best poker players. Last week Thomas Austin Preston Jr., 44, better known as Amarillo Slim because of his home town and his build (6 ft. 2 in., 165 lbs.), had no time for the sheep...
...patter to fit his chosen profession. No sooner has Mickey polished off his newest thriller, The Organ Grinder, than he is approached by an unlikely p.r. type named Ben Dinunccio (Lionel Stander) with a mysterious proposition that turns out to be a commission to ghostwrite the autobiography of Preston Gilbert (Mickey Rooney). Gilbert is a runt who grew into Hollywood's No. 1 celluloid hoodlum and who, boasts Dinunccio, "boffed every leading lady he ever worked with...
...Concert. Simulcast rock concert with picture on the screen and sound in four-track stereo on WBCN-FM radio, features the Hollies, Loggins and Messina and Billy Preston from Santa Monica, Calif. CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...million shares. The price of these shares alone increased by $83 million in 1972, to $192 million. The company is headed by three husbands of granddaughters of Founder W.E. Upjohn. They are Chairman Ray T. Par-fet Jr., 50; President Robert M. Boude-man, 55; and Executive Committee Chairman Preston S. Parish, 53. Under them the company last year achieved research breakthroughs on prostaglandins, which are hormone-like substances that may be used to terminate pregnancies. That news prompted excited investors to bid up the stock from...
FRESHMAN UNION. Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve (8:00) and Sullivan's Travels...