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...roaring party in Melbourne, Ava's bitter argument over her hotel room: it was newly decorated, but she insisted that it be done again with expensive English wallpaper. So sore was the Melbourne Truth (circ. 120.000) that it printed a shot of Ava emerging from the surf bedraggled and clutching at her bikini. Headlined the Truth...
...week break from prayer meetings on his Down Under "Crusade for Christ," Evangelist Billy Graham went out for a dip in the Pacific surf at Broad-beach, Australia. Later, tanned and rested, he flew off to New Zealand, stirred 3,000 welcomers with a message of hope: "If Christians around the world unite in prayer, we could avert war. We don't have anything in common racially or politically. One common denominator we do have is spiritual...
...vacation in Florida, General of the Army Omar Bradley, 66, now board chairman of the Bulova Watch Co., put on a sourdough getup and a super-Groucho mustache for a frolicsome "Yukon Night" at the exclusive Surf Club north of Miami Beach. Other Bradley diversions: sharpening up his mortar-accurate (high 70s) golf game, playing the ponies (he has one named after him) at Gulf stream track, where he showed a keen eye for long shots, made $26.20 on a $2 bet. Said an admiring friend: "He spends more time studying the form charts than anyone I ever knew...
...juice, cereal, bacon and eggs), he left his twelve-room white frame and fieldstone house, walked briskly to the barnyard. In the early morning mist the low-lying white barn, surmounted by five giant blue-black silos, rode the frozen prairie like an ocean liner. Like a rumble of surf came the hungry bellowing of 400 white-faced Herefords and the grunting of 500 Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped up to an instrument panel as intricate as a ship's, began pushing buttons and pulling switches...
...until he was 13; after their mother returned to New York, the boys were boarded out with relatives or at a succession of schools. It was a lonely time but also an exciting one. "I still have the impression," Belafonte says, "of lush green vegetation, white sandy beaches, rolling surf, endless winding roads. It was an environment that sang." The people sang with it. The streets of Kingston were thronged with piping vendors or politicians drumming up a vote in the lilting singsong of the islands. It was "a groovy time. I was a great night gazer. I used...