Sailor Walks Plank to Tie Knot

--Yugoslav sailor Nedikjko Saric put his foot down on marriage: He put one foot on the gangplank and one on the dock. Immigration rules say that if a foreign crewman marries a U.S. citizen while he’s in port, he has to leave with the ship but can apply for re-entry. Saric, 26, who misunderstood the regulations and thought he could quit his seaman’s job immediately, was apprehended by immigration officials after he left his ship to get married. His American fiancee, Linda Matis, 34, and her wedding guests followed Saric and the agents back to the ship. They summoned Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Barbara Holzmann to perform the ceremony dockside. But the captain had been told not to let Saric off the ship again. And Holzmann couldn’t perform the ceremony on ship because it is Yugoslavian territory. The solution was Saric’s unusual footwork.

--Tina Turner and Monty Hall won by a nose in a recent poll. Joseph Kaliff, president of the Caricaturists Society of America, said poll respondents thought that those two entertainers have the most sensuous nostrils. “People who are looked upon as sensual usually have one distinctive facial feature that immediately attracts the eye and arouses feelings of desire in members of the opposite sex,” Kaliff said. A poll of society members shows the most sensual lips belong to “Dynasty” star Joan Collins and actor Mel Gibson, and the sexiest eyes to country singer Crystal Gayle and actor Clint Eastwood. The two persons who were considered to be most sensual overall were Raquel Welch and comedian Jay Leno.

--Actress Donna Reed filed a $7.5-million breach of contract suit against CBS Entertainment Inc. and Lorimar Productions for dropping her from the role of Miss Ellie in the television series “Dallas.” In her Los Angeles Superior Court action, the Academy Award-winning actress declared that “being fired from ‘Dallas’ does irreparable harm to my career” and that “the value of this exposure (on the TV screen) goes beyond salary figures.” After hiring her last June to take the role vacated by ailing actress Barbara Bel Geddes, the producers of the show told her agent in April that she would be replaced, the suit says. The replacement is Bel Geddes, whose return to the show next season has been announced. Judge John L. Cole denied Reed’s lawyers’ request for a temporary restraining order to halt series production pending resolution of the suit. He set a hearing for a preliminary injunction on June 18. Reed is asking for $2.5 million in general damages and $5 million in punitive damages.