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Director Alfred Hitchcock explained that with his current film behind schedule, he could not shoot Mamie, in which the princess was to play a compulsive thief, during Grace's summer visit to the U.S.
Monegasques had a homier answer: since Prince Rainier faces a summer showdown with France over his defiant refusal to modify Monaco's tax setup to suit Charles de Gaulle, she is staying home to give hubby some much needed moral support —and also to quiet rumors of a royal rift.
In "the best interests of professional boxing and the public," New York's Athletic Commission knocked surly Strongman Charles ("Sonny") Liston, 29, clear out of the state. His conduct in the ring was clean enough—33 wins in 34 pro bouts—but for his ragged record outside (including armed robbery and assault convictions), boxing's Bad Boy was denied a license that would have cleared the way for a $4,000,000 title bout with Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson in September. Seattle, Philadelphia and Chicago, suddenly interested in rehabilitating Sonny, weighed in with bids to replace New York as the fight site. At his Highland Mills, N.Y., training camp, Champion Patterson was sympathetic. "I've had a bad past too," said he, "I used to steal from fruit stores."
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