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...roles were reversed: Hearns was dancing, trying to stay out of Leonard's reach, while the smaller man turned stalker. Slowly, however, Hearns regained his momentum and once again started to carry the judges' cards. At the same time, enmity turned to respect: when the bell rang, the two men no longer tossed late punches and insults but instead saluted each other's courage and skill, tapping gloves fraternally...
...been a bad couple of days for Claudette Colbert, and even this most unactressy of actresses was suffering an attack of nerves. On the morning of the day her new play, a suspense comedy titled A Talent for Murder, opened in Washington, D.C., the fire alarms rang in her hotel and everyone was ordered to flee the building. She scurried around, picking up valuables and trying to coax Bijou, the cat, from under the bed. By the time Bijou was out, the gongs were silent -false alarm-but the damage was done. "I was shaking for 20 minutes," she explained...
...June 24, the day before the Conoco-Cities Service merger was to be announced, the phone rang in Bailey's office. The caller: Du Font's Jefferson. His question: "Is there any constructive role we can play?" Bailey thanked Jefferson for his concern about the Seagram bid, but replied that he was already negotiating with another company...
...division down London's Mall. The royal family was bound for the huge open ground of the Horse Guards Parade for the annual ceremony of the Trooping the Color in honor of the monarch's official birthday. Suddenly, as millions of television viewers looked on, six shots rang out. The Queen's horse reared. She looked pale and shaken as she fought to control him, turning back to see whether Prince Philip and Prince Charles were all right. But none of the shots found a mark-all were blanks. The Queen, quickly recovering her poise, continued...
Coming into the heavy weight-loss championship, the two opponents, both bestselling diet authors, were lean and mean. When the bell rang for their appearance on NBC's late-night Tomorrow show, Dr. Robert Atkins (Dr. Atkins' Diet Book) and Nathan Pritikin (The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise) spattered like fast-frying bacon. In the crossfire of insults and accusations, refereed by Tomorrow Co-Host Tom Snyder, 45, Pritikin, who advocates a low-cholesterol, high-exercise program, asserted that Atkins' high-fat, high-protein diet increased the chances of heart disease and certain cancers. After...