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Trumped: Casino owner Bob Stupak has challenged billionaire Donald Trump to a high-stakes game of chance, with the winnings to go to charity. “Since Donald won’t let me beat him at his game, I’ll give him a chance to beat me at mine,” said Stupak, owner of the Vegas World hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Both men devised games for retail sale-- one called “Trump,” the other “Stupak.” After winning a $1-million Super Bowl bet last year, Stupak challenged the New York billionaire to a $1-million game of “Trump” but was turned down. Stupak now suggests they play “Stupak” for the same stakes.

Grad Jazz: It wasn’t the usual commencement speech that Milt (The Judge) Hinton gave at Skidmore College’s 79th commencement ceremony in Saratoga, N.Y. Hinton, 79, considered the patriarch of jazz bass players, received an honorary doctor of humane letters last weekend from the liberal arts college, and, in lieu of the usual words of inspiration, played two songs. “This is blowing my mind,” he said of the degree.

Lighten Up: “When I think of classic blonds, I think of Marilyn Monroe and her suicide. There’s something tragic about it,” actress Cybill Shepherd says in June Glamour magazine. “I’m not blond to be more fun; I’m blond because it looks better.” She was a towhead baby, but when her hair darkened in her early teens, “my mother handed me a bottle of spray-on lightener,” Shepherd says. She’s been on the (blond) bottle ever since.

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Rolls Record: British businessman Charles Howard has paid $2.86 million for a 1907 Silver Cloud, the highest price ever paid for a Rolls-Royce, a Sotheby’s spokesman said. The car was one of 25 vintage autos owned by the late Rick Carroll of Stuart, Fla., who died in an auto accident last year. The cars and related artifacts brought in $20.9 million in an auction Saturday at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach.

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