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...Sponge Tosser. While Althea was slamming her way through 6 opponents to the title, Hoad at first performed more like a talented but moody schoolboy than the defending champion. In early matches, played on the far reaches of Wimbledon before standing galleries of only a few hundred, he snarled at himself when a shot went astray, grimaced when his booming serve missed by millimeters. Asked one newspaper: "Can Hoad beat the sulks?" Against Sweden's Sven Davidson in the semifinals, Hoad fretted some, but still won in a breeze...
...default of entertainment, television last week was giving away more money than ever before. CBS unveiled a new giveaway, Do You Trust Your Wife?, a money-tosser that has nearly as many M.C.s (Edgar Bergen and three of his dummies) as it does contestants (three married couples). The show is filmed-and filmed badly. Large blisters of light kept glaring on and off during the 30 minutes, seemingly timed to the excessive applause of the well-trained studio audience. The winning contestants: Robert and Roberta Hickey, parents of eleven children, who won $100 a week for a year when Roberta...
Texas Playboy Sheppard ("Abdullah") King, "tired of playing cat and mouse" with his Egyptian belly-dancing wife, Samia Gamal, announced that he was throwing her over for another torso-tosser named Nejla Ates, a 21-year-old Turk. After sparking Nejla between the acts in a Manhattan nightspot, Shep brayed happily: "She has everything-plus castanets." They would marry as soon as he could divorce Samia, who, he predicted, would "flip her lid" at the news. In far off Cairo, Samia got the news but played it cool: "He may want to know that I had a very disdainful smile...
Amon Carter Jr., 32, son of the publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (circ. 232,861), stepped into the job he had been groomed for during the past 20 years. A paper-tosser with a regular route at eleven, he moved up to office boy, then staff photographer (as a tank commander in North Africa, he was captured, held prisoner by the Germans for 27 months). Later he sold advertising, was promoted to advertising manager and member of the board of directors of the company. Last week he was named president of the company, and Amon Sr. moved...
...Ladas stopped off at the Church of Saint George to light a traditional candle. As he stepped back into his waiting car, a young man in a Greek air force uniform walked up, tossed in a hand grenade. The explosion mortally wounded Ladas and his policeman bodyguard, injured the tosser, Communist Ephstratios Moutsoyannis. As the police dragged him off, he muttered: "Party orders ... party orders...