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Twin Pistols. After being She in MGM's 106-minute movie that seems like 2,000 years, Dr. No's bikini girl, Ursula Andress, is back in happy Bond-land. But now she has qualified for her own license to kill in a wacky movie called The Tenth Victim. It opens in a weird, cubistic New York nightclub, where Ursula is bumping, grinding and stripping down to her glittering silver and green bikini. A Chinese brandishing a .45 automatic rushes at her, but Ursula is the fastest bra in town. Bang-bang, she has fired her twin pistols...
...into extra innings it went. "The same thing is going to happen again," moaned Maloney. In the top of the tenth, Cincinnati Shortstop Leo Cardenas finally hit a home run, to make it 1-0. Then the Cubs came to bat. Jim walked the first man he faced. Then he bore down. Billy Williams flied out, Ernie Banks bounced into a double play, and whooping, dancing Reds mobbed their hero on the mound. "Now that I've finally won one of these," said Maloney, "I'm confident I can do it again...
Buff & Pedant. One of the busiest and best is Bruce Catton. Catton published his first Civil War book in 1951, when he was 52, but he has since made up for lost time. This new book, which completes a Civil War-centennial trilogy begun ten years ago, is his tenth on the subject. Together, they have sold 2,449,008 copies in hard cover and an additional 1,189,540 in paperbacks...
...dust. At the end of the first lap, he was already 135 yds. in front, and there he stayed. He set a new lap record on the first go-around (98.7 m.p.h.), then successively improved it on the next two laps (100.4 m.p.h.), broke it again on the tenth (101.1 m.p.h.). Sensing that they were witnessing a truly masterly conquest, the 300,000 spectators cheered tumultuously whenever Clark whizzed past...
Married. Lord Charles George William Colin Spencer-Churchill, 25, London insurance broker, tall (6 ft. 6 in.) handsome second son of Sir Winston's cousin the tenth Duke of Marlborough; and Texas Debutante Gillian Spreckels Fuller, 18, daughter of Fort Worth Oilman Andrew Fuller, and great-granddaughter of California Sugar King John D. Spreckels; in London, one year after they met at the Ascot races...