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MARRIED. Sugar Ray Leonard, 23, pugilist whose winnings include an Olympic gold medal (in 1976), the World Boxing Council's welterweight title (last year), and praise from Muhammad Ali ("He's a miracle"); and Juanita Wilkinson, 23, mother of Ray Jr., 6, their son; both for the first time; in Landover...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Cheryl Ladd, 28, the Charlie's Angel who replaced Farrah Fawcett on the TV series; from David Ladd, 32, film producer and son of the late movie star Alan Ladd; after seven years of marriage, one daughter; in Los Angeles...
DIED. André Dubonnet, 82, French aperitif heir, sportsman and inventor; of cancer; near Paris. The bon vivant son of Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with...
Solomon sums up his professional life as "one of handling money and men." Son of a New Jersey real estate developer, he studied economics at the University of Chicago before going into Government service. In a vertical-takeoff career, he became by 1943 at age 23 director-general of finance for Allied-occupied southwest Iran, which included that country's strategic oilfields. In the 1950s he launched a powdered soup company in Mexico. After becoming a multimillionaire by selling his firm to General Foods, he began teaching a course in Latin American entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School. Solomon...
...least appealing characters since the Wicked Witch of the West, but that the courtroom scenes are legally out of date. Meryl Streep, playing a restless housewife trying to find fulfillment, has walked out on her marriage to Dustin Hoffman, a hustling young Manhattan adman, leaving him with their young son; 18 months later she wins custody of the child despite the husband's devotion to the boy during her long absence. In the real world, psychiatrists or psychologists would have testified, the judge would have at least interviewed the child and probably would have allowed the father to retain...