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...Trunk. Newsboy's current address is the State Prison at Trenton, where he is serving a two-to-three-year sentence on a gambling conviction (his third). Last week, despite the prison bars, Newsboy's money losing continued. This time a fortune was at stake. Walking into Newsboy's cell, the county prosecutor announced: "You've just lost $2½ million.'' Back in Jersey City, two carpenters working on an ancient garage had pried open the trunk of an abandoned 1947 Plymouth sedan. Inside they found a cache of several guns and a small...
...leaguer with a blazing fastball, a reputation for wildness, and a record of nine wins, ten losses at Little Rock, Pitcher Belinsky was called up to the Angels' training camp this spring. He reported nine days late, explaining that he had been playing in a pool tournament in Trenton, N.J. No sooner was he in camp than he held a press conference-to complain about his $6,000 minimum contract. "Hell, I know I'm a rookie," said Belinsky, graciously. "I even got my hair cut so I'd look like one. But baseball is like pool...
...pure brass is the stuff that 20-game winners are made of, 25-year-old Bo Belinsky should have a great year. The son of a Trenton laborer, he skipped high school baseball because "you had to be a hot dog to play on our team at Trenton. I couldn't go for that 'yes sir, no sir' bit or all that 'win for the old red-and-black, sis, boom, bah.' " After working two years in an overall factory and playing sandlot ball on the side, Bo grabbed a pitching job with the Class...
...businessman in Trenton who wants to call the Western Electric Co. in Manhattan-but doesn't know the number-it is about as easy as falling off a logarithm: first he dials 2125551212 (Information in Manhattan), then 2125712345 for Western Electric. If he is lucky he won't have to give an extension number for the man he wants to talk to; if he is luckier, he can still remember why he was calling in the first place...
...Kovacs, 42, mustachioed, cigar-frazzling master of madcap nihilistic humor; of a fractured skull and a ruptured aorta suffered when his car crashed into a utility pole; in West Los Angeles. Son of an immigrant Hungarian tavern keeper, Kovacs started off as an $18-a-week radio announcer in Trenton, N.J., scored his first TV success when he leered out at Philadelphia viewers while running a vacuum cleaner upside down over the studio ceiling, went on to win nationwide fame with three big-box-office movies (Operation Mad Ball, Bell, Book and Candle, Our Man in Havana) and scores...