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DIED. Alfred Kastler, 81, French physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize for his studies of polarized light that paved the way for the development of the laser; in Bandol, France. Kastler was drawn to the study of light ever since becoming impressed as a child by a solar eclipse. A self-effacing scientist with outspoken political views, he was a pacifist who strongly opposed nuclear weapons and the war in Viet...
Reporters charged into the little village of Bandol, France, to corner elusive Cinemactor Marlon Brando, 30, who finally admitted that he is engaged to marry pretty Josane Mariani-Berenger, 20, stepdaughter of a local Mediterranean fisherman. But that was about all the information the reporters got that they might depend on-for Brando, in his own unpredictable way, frequently likes to play the merry wild goose. Like lovers in a gay French film, the couple first talked about the romance that neither Louella Parsons nor Hedda Hopper in their wildest moments had predicted. Josane, who used to pose...
Died. Louis Lumière, 83, wealthy motion-picture and color-photography pioneer, whom (with his brother Auguste) Europeans generally credit with inventing the cinema; of a heart ailment; in Bandol, France...
...Roxy") Rothafel that his first born would be a boy, Borrah Minevitch, harmonica virtuoso, set out in his sloop from Nice to Africa "to hunt lions." When four days passed without sign of the boat Mrs. Minevitch set up an alarum. Three days later Musician Minevitch turned up at Bandol on the south coast of France with this story: As soon as they were out of sight of land his crew of four Corsicans, whom he had promised to pay $39 a day, lowered sail, made themselves comfortable, let the sloop drift. Even after running up a bill for four...
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