KNIFE-WIELDING POPE LUNGES AT CROWD Inside O JU * STILL ONLY 20c INTRUDER LLOYD BRIDGES' SECRET BETRAYAL Disappointed Wilcox employees attempting to locate their offices. ENGINEERING ERROR RENDERS SKYSCRAPER UNINHABITABLE THE FIRST LADY'S FAVORITE SHOES A special report “I guess we just weren’t thinking,” explained Lloyd Jarvis, head engineer for the 62-story Wilcox building on Chicago’s south side. “We were busy and somebody made a mistake. I mean, what else can I say?” An apparent computer error which rendered the building’s measurements in millimeters instead of feet was the official culprit, but lawyers for the client, Wilcox Pharmaceuticals, were not so easily persuaded. “You can’t explain it by blaming the computer alone,” protested Boyd Randolph, the Wilcox official responsible for the project. “Did anyone notice that they finished two years ahead of schedule? What were they thinking when they decided to deliver it in a truck? Frankly we’re disappointed. We’ve got over 800 employees. We’d be fools to try to work in it.” ■ Page 15 19505, reportedly had been despondent over the lack of good movie roles for German shepherds. In the early 1970s, Tin was arrested twice on drug charges and two I ATE NYLON AND LIVED A former prison guard tells his story Page 19 The gay animal world was shocked last week when former television star Rin Tin Tin and his live-in lover, Champ the Wonder Horse, were found dead in their West Hollywood bungalow, apparently victims of a murder-suicide triangle. According to police and coroners’ reports, Tin, 36, bit cowboy star Gene Autry’s former movie steed to death following an argument, then drowned himself in his water dish. The quarrel, apparently involving the horse’s friendship with 9 Lives catfood star Morris Sheffield, was one of many recent arguments, according to unnamed sources. Sheffield was unavailable for comment. more times for leaping on actor Lorne Greene outside a Tin, who had his last major television role during the Hollywood nightclub. For the past few years, the canine actor had been appearing occasionally in summer stock, most recently at the Pasadena Playhouse in the role of Othello. Champ, retired from acting, had numerous real estate holdings in the Los Angeles area. He is survived by his daughter Flicka, the only child of a brief marriage to actress Donna Reed. ■ GRANDFATHER OF 8 GIVES BIRTH TO CHICKEN COOP AS HORRIFIED A MELMAC PUBLICATION • EDITOR IN CHIEF • JIM BLASHFIELD Clinton St. Quarterly 23
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