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Show DAVE DeBUSSCHERE: is lime Running Out For a Chamen! How does a fellow who was born and raised in Detroit, was a basketballstar at Detroit’s Austin High School and at the University of Detroit, and then a mainstay of the Detroit Pistons quintet becomea star forwardfor the champion New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association? The man is Dave DeBusschere, and two phone calis, three years apart, are whatled to a player trade which made sports history. Thefirst call camein the fall of 1965 from Eddie Donovan, then general manager of the New York Knicker- bockers. Dave was a coach in the Pistons’ training camp. He had his hands full with the team’s problems, and Donovan’s call was to cheer him up. Three years later, Dave and his wife Geri were arranging Christmas decorations in their Detroit home when another telephone call came. This time it was from Ed Coil, general manager of the Pistons. “We've traded you to the Knicks,” Coil said. And that was the beginning of an alliance that was to have championship proportions. Since DeBusschere joined the Knicks, What in Varmints and Caller Call a man a “varmint” in the Old West, and that was an insult. But call a man a var- he has been one of the pivotal figures in that team’s drive to the world championship of pro basketball last season, and one of the chief reasons they are favored to win anothertitle this year. But DeBusschereis stil! a Detroiter at heart. During the off season, Dave, his wife, and their baby daughter Michelle _ Still live in Detroit. (While the season Dave DeBusschere shows championship University of Detroit in 1962, and be- form as he dribbles ball downcourt. NBA, DeBusschere, who's six-ioot-six, works hard on defense, muscling under the backboards for rebounds. digging fore joining the Pistons, Dave signed with the Chicago White Sox as 2 pitcher. Shuttling between the White Sox and their minor leagueaffiliate in Indianap- for his shots. Because of Dave's strength and aggressiveness, coach Red Holzman usually assigns him to guard the biggest opposing forward. T. lhe way I play the game I have to give everything I have for the longest possible time,” DeBusschere says. Effort shows in his career statistics. Davehasregistered just under 16 points and just over 11 rebounds per game during eight professional seasons. He has finished among the NBA’s top 10 Tebounders on three occasions and although his average of 14.6 points per andlost four. Finally he quit baseball at the end of the 65 campaign. But by that time the floundering Detroit Pistons had appointed him as head coach. DeBusschere looks back on his baseball experience with wry humor. “My greatest achievements in baseball actually involved other players,” he says. “I was pitching for the White Sox the day Early Wynn, pitching for Cleve- has improved the Reed back to center, instead of con- tinuing to play forward. Bill Bradley could move into the other forward position where he could play his best game. And Walt Frazier, given the opportunity to play full time, has becomeoneof the greatest guards in the game.” Though Dave admits life in professional basketball has its wearisome mo- land, got the 300th victory of his career. At the beginning of the 1963 season, the White Sox had to choose between ments, the thrill of the Knicks’ victory NBA’s All-Star game four times. But that kind of effort is draining— two pitchers. They kept me and sent Denny McLain to the minors.” makes the rest of your life better.” eWorld! | Daughter,” British actress Sarah Miles be derived from sugar in the future. Among themis the appiication of sugar as a laminate componeni, in surfacing hunter, has won international prizes for this skill. He recently returned from an African safari to his home in South Pasadena, Calif. where he develops (see cover) isn’t very thrilled. She studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts; has played opposite Sir John the Grand Prize at a Cannes Film Festival for “Blow-Up,” and an Academy Award nomination for “The Servant.” Yet Sarah claims she “doesn’t like acting.” She doesn’t like actors much, either. “I don’t know one actor and don’t want to.” What she does want io do is just be Mrs. Robert Bolt (he wrote bagged a dangerous 2500-Ib. varmint the original screenplay for her new film), and mother to their son Thomas, almost two. “There’s no point in working; taxes take 90% of everything I make,” With that attitude, how did Sarah ever find herself in a film, especially after she’d managed to stay away for three years? “Robert pushed me.” is like a woman screaming. When the was more shook up trying to explain what he was doing than he ever has been while arguing with a charging varmint. The Actress Who‘d Ruther Not For a girl who’s winning world-wide acclaim for her title role in “Ryan’s last season has remained with him. “Just playing with a championship team —LARRY BORTSTEIN Gielgud and Sir Laurence Olivier; won called a Cape Buffalo. But he can’t say the same for an experience shortly police car came, Dougherty insists, he Dougherty, 32, a professional bow- olis during the 1962 and 1963 baseball seasons, Dave won only three games “DeBusschere Knicks at four positions,” claims Gene Shue, coach of the Baltimore Bullets. “First,” Shue says, “DeBusschere gave the Knicks the best forward they had ever had. His rebounding made it possible for the Knicks to move Willis gamelast season wasn’t one ofhis better accomplishments, he played in the after, right in Hollywood. He and his ranches for flushing out coyotes, bob cats, mountain lions, and other predatory animals—that is, varmints.) Jim simultaneously a msjor league coach in one sport and a minor league athlete in another. Shorty after graduating from the friends were practicing their varmintcalling on a Jocal boulevard. The sound skilled varmint caller is vital around A little-known distinction which DeBusschere can claim is that he once was ability as many other forwards in the He felt no fear in Mozambique as he mint caller, and that’s high praise. (A around for something else to do. Each year it gets harder to get into shape.” is on, however, the DeBusscheres live in Garden City, N.Y.) Not endowed with as much natural sporting goods for The Leisure Group Varmint caller with varmint and DeBusschere is now past his 30th birthday. “I may play another two or three years,” he insists, “and then look Sugar Scientist Some day your coffee table may be sweeter than your coffee. So says Mrs. Valerie Kollonitsch, a research chemist with the International Sugar Research Foundation, as she summarized for FaMiLY WEEKLY some of the unexpected uses that might She explains « sugar furniture, such as dining tables or coffee tables. Other uses include paint components or as a constituent of urethane foam used in refrigerator insulation. A particularly promising future for sugar derivatives may be in creating a less-foamy detergent. Sugar may one day help to replace the chemicals which now persist in the form of nondisappearing suds and contri€ute to the water-pollution problem. The results should at least be sweet, if not tasty. |