People, Nov. 16, 1953

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In a township in Gallia County, Ohio, Rio Grande College's Clarence ("Bevo") Francis, a towering (6 ft. 9 in.) athlete who was the highest scorer (1,954 points) in U.S. collegiate basketball last season, got a reward for his sharpshooting: he was elected to the office of constable on 15 write-in votes.

While Rita Hay worth languished at their home in Greenwich, Conn., her new husband, Crooner Dick Haymes, beset by nerves, alimony worries, a mountain of debts, deportation threats and high blood pressure, languished in a Manhattan hospital, at week's end shakily headed home.

Fred M. Saigh, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team, was paroled from the federal pen in Terre Haute, Ind. after serving six months of a 15-month stretch for evading income taxes.

Nearly two years after he accused his wife Zsa Zsa Gabor of discarding him "like a squeezed lemon," Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders sued for divorce. He charged that, among other things, Zsa Zsa had left him "in a rundown condition." When she heard about the suit, Zsa Zsa cried: "George never bought a ticket or paid a hotel bill. He used my car, my house. This man didn't buy one hat for me ... I didn't even got an engagement ring . . . I'm a nice lady so I don't sue him, but he sues me. I don't think he's a gentleman!"

Mamie Eisenhower dropped in at the House of Mercy, a foundling home in the capital, and gave a grandmotherly hug to three-month-old John David, whose adoption by foster parents is pending.