European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes thursday August 4,1988 Rudolph Bing s wife hospitalized from press dispatches lady Carroll Douglass Bing wife of former metro Politan opera impresario sir Rudolf Bing has been hospitalized in a psychiatric Ward for the past two weeks her lawyer said tuesday. She s at St. Luke a said lawyer Harvey Sladkus referring to a private Hospital in Manhattan. He said police took her to the Hospital july 17 and she was admitted after an incident involving some friends of hers. What the incident was i Don t  she s an emotionally fragile lady Sladkus said. He blamed her instability on attempts by Bing s Law yers to annul her marriage. The bings were married in january 1987 in Mclean a. Bing s lawyers Are trying to get the marriage annulled on the ground that the 86-year-old former opera general manager who has alzheimer s disease did not know what he was doing. On May 9, state supreme court Justice Carmen ciparick ordered a psychiatric examination of lady Bing at her lawyer s request because of her apparent inability to follow the court s directions. That same Day the judge ordered lady Bing 48, to leave her husband s apartment for six specific hours each Day so nurses could attend to Bing. My client has lost touch with reality Sladkus told the judge. Sladkus said he was told of lady Bing s hospitalization by her sister Dianne who called from her Home in Washington . He said he has no idea How Long she will stay at St. Luke s. That s a medi Cal determination he said. Meanwhile Sladkus said he has asked that the judge stay All annulment proceedings until doctors say lady Bing is Able to defend herself. He said the judge scheduled further proceedings in the Case for aug. 10. Bottle Nofe gets response five years ago a boy vacationing with his family on an Island near Nassau stuffed a note into a Cham pagne bottle with the message please when you find this could you write me Back and dropped it into the Atlantic  week Nick Biddle got a reply to his message from a 60-year-old briton who found the broken bottle on a Beach in Southern Wales. Nick s bottle had had his name and address inside the finder Alan Bennett a retired British airways employee was vacationing near the mumbles a coastal town in Southern Wales about 60 Miles West of Bristol England when he found the bottle. In a straight line that s More than 4,400 Miles from where the bottle was put into the water. Nick now 10, said he never forgot about the bottle and was thrilled to get a response. I always had it on my mind but when i heard about the letter i got really excited the fifth grader at Gulf beaches elementary school in St. Petersburg fla., said. He plans to write Dack to his new pen pal who lives in the Welsh  of Treharris. Taylor hospitalized a fractured Vertebra has forced Elizabeth Taylor into a Hospital for rest and therapy her physician  56-year-old actress was admitted to St. John s Hospital in Santa Monica Calif., last thursday. She will require strict bed rest and physiotherapy her physician William Skinner said in a Brief statement. He said a rays showed a compression fracture of the first Lumbar Vertebra had produced lower Back muscular spasm that required the hospitalization. Garlic is King in Gilroy some 160,000 people had one thing on their mind and on their breath As they gathered in Gilroy Calif., to feast on mushrooms burritos ice Cream and other treats liberally smothered in garlic. The 10th annual Gilroy garlic festival featured 85 Booths of garlic spiced foods from nearly every imaginable ethnic National and cultural background. Arts and crafts Booths featured items like 14-Carat Gold garlic Motif jewelry and garlic  big item was mrs. M s garlic Peanut butter Choc Olate candies. Stuffed into Little cups about 7,000 were sold last year for 75 cents each. We sell them like mad said Harriett Macioge alias mrs.  32,000 people attended opening Day of the festival on Friday about equal to last year s record opening Day crowd said John Parrinello festival vice president. Gilroy foods the world s largest Dehydrator of onions and garlic expects to give away about 50,000 Cones filled with chocolate garlic ice Cream. Singer s car robbed american jazz Singer Sarah Vaughan was robbed of her handbag by youths who smashed the rear win Dow of her car in Catania Sicily police reported. Vaughan was in route Back to her hotel from a concert South of Catania when she stopped for a red Light in a Palermo suburb. The Singer was quoted As saying two youths on a motor Scooter smashed the window with an Iron bar and stole her bag. Expensive Job for Sonny entertainer Sonny Bono spent almost $100,000 in his successful bid to become the $15,000-a-year mayor of Palm Springs Calif. Bono s Campaign spent $99,967 on the april 12 election in which he received 4,858 votes to beat six red nosed Hawke australian prime minister Bob Hawke wears a Clown s red nose to remind the Public of National red nose Day sept. 2, to raise Money for research into sudden infant death syn drome which is responsible for some 500 baby deaths a year in Australia. Challengers according to his Campaign report. The new mayor who gained Fame As part of the singing team Sonny and Cher spends most weekdays working full time at City Hall. Nelson to tape special country music Star Willie Nelson will perform next week at a Black tie gala at the Oryland hotel in Nashville Tenn. The show will be taped for a Cable television special. 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