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Died. Jack Cassidy, 49, actor and singer; in a fire in his apartment; in West Hollywood, Calif. A Queens, N.Y., native, Cassidy first hit Broadway in a chorus line at the age of 16; he later starred in several musicals, including his 1963 Tony Award-winning performance in She Loves Me. His preening charm and Irish good looks were also prominent in plays, films, television and supper clubs. Cassidy often appeared with Shirley Jones, to whom he was married for 18 years before their divorce last year. His son. Singer David Cassidy, was born during his earlier marriage to Actress...
...award the second post-season laurel for the Harvard coach. The New York Touchdown Club honored Restic last week...
Protests against Milton Friedman, University of Chicago economist and this year's recipient of the Economics award, interrupted the ceremony. Demonstrators accused Friedman of supporting the right-wing military government in Chile, an accusation he disputes...
...award, sponsored by Norwegian newspapers and civic groups as a grass-roots parallel to this year's Nobel Peace Prize,* drew an outpouring of $324,000 in donations from Norway and around the world. Her voice trembling, Williams announced that the money would go to a children's center in Belfast's gutted slums. "When I look at sound and happy Norwegian children," she told the audience, "I think of the boys and girls of Northern Ireland, children used to war, to nerve medicine and sleeping pills, and I ask: 'God, forgive us for what...
...things are possible in Spain now after the death of Franco," Jorge Guillen, the Spanish poet, said yesterday. Guillen, who left Spain when Generalissimo Francisco Franco came to power, was last week named the recipient of the Cervantes Prize, the highest literary award of Spanish-speaking nations...