Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a wartime marriage to French Cinemactress Danielle Darrieux, Rubi in 1947 married Doris Duke, heiress to the $100 million Duke tobacco fortune. Doubtlessly out of respect for the bride's family, Rubi smoked a cigarette all through the ceremony in Paris (Doris provided the ring), but the marriage lasted only 13 months. Doris was, as he said, "extremely generous," and he went on to become corespondent in two society divorce suits and, in 1953, Husband No. 5 of Dime Store Heiress Barbara Hutton. Babs and Rubi flew aboard a chartered Super Constellation from Manhattan to Palm Beach...
...Sondek, and today the store stands just months away from completion with a 5-ft.-deep, 21-ft.-wide notch in its otherwise unbroken facade. The notch not only cost Macy's an extra $50,000 in building costs, but also some 15 parking spaces (the outside ring of the building consists of five parking ramps...
...last May 31: anywhere from 250,000 to 300,000. By some countries' standards, that's a fair-to-middling crowd. Germany's top sports-car race, the 1,000 kilometers of Nurburgring, regularly attracts more than 300,000 fans, and smaller weekly events at "the Ring" draw 30,000 to 50,000. Japan staged its first-ever "grand prix" race in 1963. Promoters were stunned when no fewer than 360 would-be Jimmy Clarks signed up to compete and 300,000 enthusiastic spectators turned out to cheer them...
KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and THE ZOO STORY. In a fifth-anniversary revival of this double bill, Edward Albee's Story is still provocative and dramatic, and Samuel Beckett's Tape has the true ring of a classic...
...limit his contribution to a few bridges of continuity-the rest of the show was a splice-up of some of his favorite vignettes from past seasons. There he was again as the bowlegged, barelegged (except for anklet socks) toreador fleeing a rampaging bull in a Madrid ring. Or replaying his "Now a message from Alka-Seltzer," which was unexpectedly punctuated by a belch from Jonathan Winters. Or sending Richard Nixon to the piano and leading Bea Lillie off with a fond pat on her backside...