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"It certainly does not seem typical of Her Highness," said a royal spokesman stiffly. But an Australian reporter who was standing much nearer to Princess Anne as she struggled with her billowing four-foot-long scarf on a windy day in Sydney, insisted he heard her say: "Hell, I can't see in the bloody wind." Prince Charles also showed the Down Unders some of the same style verbal versatility. Approached on a beach near Sydney by a Greek-speaking Aussie who asked him if he spoke the language, Charles replied with a blunt but colorful Greek phrase that means—approximately—"push off."
Three small businessmen with big names, appearing before a U.S. Senate small business subcommittee, all urged tighter controls on celebrity-linked franchise operations. The most glamorous stockholder in Edie Adams' Cut & Curl Beauty Salons was flanked by the founder of the Here's Johnny's (Carson) restaurant chain and the board chairman of Mickey Mantle's Country Cookin'.
Moische, a white poodle, almost got a fatal shock when he bit through a lamp cord. His mistress, Actress Sue Lyon, best remembered as the blonde nymphet in Lolita, used mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and saved the pup's life.
Baseball's most publicized scandal in 50 years ended with a tap on the wrist and a mild half-season suspension for the Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain, the high-living pitcher whose foray into organized gambling nearly cost the sport one of its brightest performers. Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn dismissed the athlete as "gullible and avaricious." "I'll have to get me a dictionary," said McLain. Informed that the adjectives mean "stupid and greedy," Denny said, "Yes, I am stupid and greedy."