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Even zealots occasionally have second thoughts. Carter forgot to store several pages of his memoirs and lost them from his Lanier "No Problem." Historical Romance Writer Robyn Carr (The Blue Falcon) fears that workmen digging near her new house in Florida will hit a power line. A voltage drop of even a few seconds could cause the displayed page of text to disappear on her Burroughs Redactor-III. (Apple Computer Inc. offers an accessory for just such occasions-a battery pack that supplies electricity during blackouts. Its name: Apple Juice.) The most surreal glitch occurred when Environmentalist-Writer Michael Parfit...
...bottom of the line-up came through, particularly seniors Meyer and Martha Roberts. In the fourth match. team captain Roberts triumphed 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 over Alice Van Meter. The, after Debbie Kalish fell to Dartmouth's Robyn Fishman 6-2, 6-0, setting the stage for Mever's tough three-set match...
...present. Riding an uninspiring gelding, Rubla Khan, in the third was none other than Mrs. Fred Astaire, back from a month's postnuptial vacation for what she says will be her final year in silks. "This is my favorite track," says the 35-year-old jockey, a.k.a. Robyn Smith. "It's the oldest in America. I was the first woman to ride here ten years ago." Smith will spend next spring on the race courses of Europe and then, reluctantly, hang up her spurs. "Fred," she explains, "thinks riding horses is dangerous...
MARRIED. Fred Astaire, 81, whose smooth stepping with such partners as Ginger Rogers and Cyd Charisse has graced 50 movies; and Robyn Smith, 37, jockey; in his Beverly Hills home; he for the second time, she for the first...
Trust Barbara Walters to ferret out a secret. Interviewing Fred Astaire, Walters bluntly asked Hollywood's soigné cine-dancer whether he planned to marry Woman Jockey Robyn Smith, 35. Said Fred, 80: "She is a great girl." Well, had he popped the question? "Yes, sure." Would they wed soon? "I think so." What about the age difference? "I don't even think about it." Smith, once a jock for and good friend to Maryland Horseman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, 67, met Widower Astaire eight years ago while she was riding the California tracks; their feelings quickly became parimutual...