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...have one of the great forearms in tennis," suggested Political Trickster Dick Tuck. "To strain my arm in this would have been foolish, so I didn't." Tuck's comments were a waggish explanation for his defeat in the Esquire Gala Celebrity Mixed Invitational Arm-Wrestling Tourney held last week in Manhattan. While bartenders boosted the spirits of waiting contestants, Actor Peter Boyle, Singer Mac Davis, ex-Housewife Pat Loud and nine others soon joined Tuck in the loser's circle. The women's division championship went to Model Margaux Hemingway, whose vigorous gum-chewing...
Dancer Leslie Caron is really rolling these days. Despite the 24 years since her film debut in An American in Paris, Caron looked fit enough as she rehearsed on roller skates for the 42nd Gala de l'Union des Artistes, a Paris benefit in behalf of retired entertainers. The show, which takes place May 23, features show-biz folk in a circus setting and includes Actresses Romy Schneider as a horsewoman and Sydne Rome as a lion tamer. Caron, 43, who first laced on skates just three weeks ago, has been wheeling about every day and, according to bystanders...
Macintosh and Mallet spend several nights a week at art gallery and nightclub openings, film and theater premieres, sports events, gala concerts, parties and award dinners, often accompanied by TIME'S celebrity-hunting paparazzi. Fortunately Mallet explains, quips often since most of the people we talk to are under the in fluence of something." Unfortunately, Macintosh points out, some call the next morning and ask to have their best quotes stricken from the record...
...hero, Leone Gala (John McMartin), tries to live a life of detached rationality, and has granted his wife Silia (Joan Van Ark) an amicable separation so that she can accommodate a lover. She is a tempestuous creature of instinct who is maddeningly irked by one fact: Leone shows no visible jealousy. She begs her lover Guido (David Dukes) to kill her husband, but he does not really take the plea seriously, and besides he has no stomach for the assignment...
...With two gala showings (Mrs. Gerald Ford, congressional luminaries) before the opening proper, Washington's National Gallery last week unveiled the celebrated "Exhibition of Archaeological Finds of the People's Republic of China." It had started traveling in Paris (TIME, Aug. 13, 1973) and gone on to Vienna, Stockholm, London and Toronto. In Washington, the Chinese provoked a diplomatic incident: they refused to allow representatives of Taiwan, South Korea, South Africa or Israel to attend the customary press preview. The National Gallery retorted that it was not its policy to exclude anyone. Result: the preview was canceled...