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At first his manager claimed that he was just feverish from some bug he picked up in Australia,
but now it's official: love has finally come to Tiny Tim.
An impetuous swain, the unearthly falsetto couldn't wait to tell reporters about his betrothal to
Vicki Budinger, 17, and thereby robbed Johnny Carson of a promised exclusive on the Tonight Show.
Still, Carson got to preside over the presentation of a diamond ring to "Miss Vicki"
and signed up the lovers for a network wedding on Christmas Day.
As Tiny tells it, he first met Vicki last June in Philadelphia when he was autographing copies
of his book, Beautiful Thoughts. "He had a Band-Aid on his hand," she recalls,
"and he told me it was from removing warts." For his part, Tiny, 36,
was so smitten that he "shed a tear and put it in an envelope that I always keep in my ukulele."
Sep 26th, 1969 |
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