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Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...
...pills and vomits from tension before every game. The pillar of the 76'ers was Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain, a giant (7 ft. 1-1/16 in.) among giants, who has scored as many as 100 points in a single game, who calls everybody "baby," including his lavender Bentley, and whose bitterness about the game almost equals his success...
This shorthand road to success has brought handsome Margery Hurst the rewards she feels she so richly deserves. She lives with her lawyer-manufacturer husband and two teen-age daughters in a 22-room country home in Surrey, has a Mayfair flat, a Bentley, a swimming pool, a butler and a lady's maid. But her proudest possession remains the Brook Street Bureau. "I have built up this business on my own," she says. "Absolutely on my own. It is a one-woman show...
Presiding over this pleasure dome last week, Kublai Khan Mills was beginning to feel that everything was once again coming up roses. The Begum was using his Rolls-Royce, an oilman had borrowed his Bentley, and all seemed right with the world. The world, that is, of what Mills likes to call VIPIs (Very Important People Indeed). "I think we've made it," said Big John Mills. "Now where are we going to put the sauna...
...barreled London establishment (casino, nightclub, restaurant) that is loaded with big game, including Prince Philip and the Sheik of Kuwait. Though Mills says "I wouldn't dare" change the zebra's stripes, he is adding a few jolly wrinkles: discotheque, a Rolls-Royce with bar, and a Bentley to carry his more diffident guests...