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Born Suzanna Smyth, the daughter of an auto engine manufacturer, Suzanna Leigh grew up in Belgrave, England, and in convent schools outside London. She began working in movies while still a pre-teen, appearing as an extra in 1958's Tom Thumb (1958) (film-debuting in the "Dancing Shoes" sequence), 1960's Oscar Wilde (1960) with 'Robert Morley' and other English productions. A few years later, she was the star of the 13-episode French TV series, Trois étoiles en Touraine (1966), which every week featured Leigh, her racing car and a different male lead (the "Three Stars" of the series' translated title). Planning to attend London's Opera Ball, costumed as "Madame Du Barry", Leigh had a sedan chair made, along with costumes for five footmen who carried it (and her) through the streets of the city. Movie producer Hal B. Wallis saw newspaper photos of Leigh's elaborate stunt and imported the 20-year-old blonde to Hollywood for Boeing, Boeing (1965). Following her brush with major studio stardom, she resumed her English acting career, showing up on movie screens, most regularly in chillers. Her 1998 autobiography is entitled "Paradise, Suzanna Style".- Red Sox second baseman Denny Doyle will always be remembered for his head-long dash from third base in the ninth inning of Game Six of the 1975 World Series (1975), which most baseball commentators call the greatest World Series game ever played. With the game tied 6-6 after Bernie Carbo's eighth inning pinch-hit homer (his second of the series) and the sacks drunk in the bottom of the ninth, American League Rookie of the Year Fred Lynn lofted a pop-up to shallow left field, hardly deep enough for even the speediest ballplayer to score on a sac-fly. (Left field at Fenway Park is more of a bandbox than a playing field, with the fabled "Green Monster" wall beginning at the left-field line beginning less than the then-advertised 315-feet from home-plate.) The ball off Lynn's bat was nothing more than a foul-out to shallow left, and Doyle was not Lou Brock. Against the better judgment of the majority of Red Sox fans and the baseball gods, the diminutive second baseman Doyle took off, chugging towards the plate, where George Foster's throw nailed him, Reds catcher (and future Hall of Famer) Johnny Bench applying the tag. It was the second out of the inning, and when Rico Petrocelli, the next batter after Lynn, grounded out, it was time for extra innings.
Game Six began on Tuesday, October 21, 1975 at Fenway Park and ended the next day, in the wee small hours of the morning, at the venerable ball-yard, when Red Sox catcher (also a future Hall of Famer) Carlton Fisk hit a walk-off home run that just missed going foul. The 12th inning event is immortalized on Fisk's Hall of Fame plaque. But before getting into extra innings, there had been the ninth, and if Doyle had scored, it would have been moot, Fisk hitting what was one of the most dramatic dingers ever launched in October baseball. Controversy surrounded Doyle's dash for home, which would have won the game for the BoSox if he succeeded. However, the play, in both execution and final result, was deemed suicidal, and after the contest was over, Doyle was pestered with the proverbial question asked of all losers (even those bound up in the winning cause that was Game Six): Why?
Third base Don Zimmer had said "Go!", Doyle patiently explained. Disingenuously, Zimmer -- who would wind up in the Red Sox Nation's doghouse for helming two superb teams in 1977 and '78 and bringing them in second-best to the hated New York Yankees -- explained that he had said "No!" to Doyle, who he felt was chomping at the bit. But for that play, Game Six would not be remembered for what it was: The greatest game ever played in post-season competition. And for that, we have keystone sacker Denny Doyle to be thankful for, and perhaps also Red Sox Nation villain Don Zimmer, for issuing the command Doyle either misunderstood or didn't on that cold October night-night so long ago.
Pete Rose would later claim that it was the '75 World Series that brought fans back to baseball after the erosion of fan support during the first generation of television sports broadcasting (1947-1975), again making it (albeit temporarily during the 1980s and early '90s) America's favorite past time. And Denny Doyle played a role in the high drama that made that so. You can look it up. - Lou Thesz is one of wrestling's living legends. Thesz started wrestling in the 1930s, and from the 1930s to the 1960s, he was one of the most dominant figures in the business. Thesz won his first World Heavyweight Title in the 1930s, and went on to become a 6-time World Heavyweight Champion, many of those reigns as the NWA (National Wrestling Alliance) world champion. Thesz' last reign was in the 1960s when he lost the NWA world title to Gene Kiniski. Thesz' last match was in the early 1990s when he lost via submission to one of his protoges, Masahiro Chono. Thesz has also written an autobiography.
- Lew Burdette was born on 22 November 1926 in Nitro, West Virginia, USA. He was married to Mary Ann Burdette. He died on 6 February 2007 in Winter Garden, Florida, USA.