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...TURPIN by Stephen Jones. 307 pages. Macmillan...
...afraid to reveal his panic to the other shoppers by bolting too soon and the whole time crushed by visions of what would happen when he shreds under, riser and tread, all his ribbon and wrapping adangle down the dark side of the moon." This is Turpin-college graduate, widower, veterinarian, and part-time lobster fisherman-forging flinchingly ahead in three days of misadventure that resembles a manic sleepwalker's nightmare...
Died. Randy Turpin, 37, prizefighter son of a white Englishwoman and a British Guianan merchant seaman, who briefly tasted fame in 1951 by winning the middleweight crown from an overconfident and undertrained Sugar Ray Robinson only to lose the title two months later in a rematch, after which Turpin wound up wrestling for $30 a night; by his own hand (pistol); in Leamington Spa, England...
...looked like Ben Turpin in uniform: a massive head, topping out at 5 ft. 4 in., rimmed with wild auburn hair and set with droop-lidded eyes that flashed balefully in opposite directions. He was called "the Beast," and "Old Cockeye"-though rarely to his face. For Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the Civil War's toughest and most hated Northern generals...
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Perhaps the best of old film clips are slapstick silents. This sample, "The Funny Men, Part I," features Chaplin, Harold Lloyd. Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin and W. C." Fields. Repeat...