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Grifter's Gift. How did Thompson work his con for so long? "He was a genius at his craft," says Robert Steigmann, Champaign County assistant state's attorney. "He had the ability to snow anybody." Ruddy-faced, ingratiating and gregarious, Thompson had the grifter's gift for spinning a convincing yarn. His face stamped with Main Street openness, Thompson never carried a fake I.D. "I don't imagine I've been asked for identification over half a dozen times," he says. Countless WANTED flyers distributed around the country gave rough descriptions...
...come a long way since posing squeaky clean with that baby on the Ivory Snow box, and Porn Star Marilyn Chambers is still moving. With her cinematic X-ertions (Behind the Green Door, Resurrection of Eve) playing in movie houses round the country, Chambers, 23, has now begun polishing her moves for a New York cabaret show. Titled "Le Bellybutton" and scheduled for opening this week in New York's Hotel Diplomat, the song-and-dance blackout revue will exhibit Marilyn and a cast of eleven in a multitude of skins. "Of course films are very lucrative," purrs Marilyn...
...just took a half to get it together, get used to hitting," co-captain Mike DeMatteo said yesterday. This season the rugby club has been limited to poorly attended indoor workouts in Carey Cage because of the late snow and lack of playing fields...
Fresh Sprouts. Much of California was drenched by rain last week, but after almost six months of unrelieved drought, the downpours were too late to be of much help to farmers. As Gordon Snow, an official in the state Department of Food and Agriculture, put it: "It is going to have to rain for 40 days and 40 nights to make any difference." Because of the lack of rain, California's usually green fields are burned brown. Wildlife, starved for fresh sprouts, is migrating to the few irrigated areas. Fruits and vegetables have been withering for lack of moisture...
...fresh coating of snow slowed the times for Sunday's giant slalom. Singer grabbed seventh and was followed by Wilson in eight...