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Died. William Bendix, 58, comic and character actor, whose fireplug face and concrete-mixer voice stole the show in more than 50 Hollywood productions (The Hairy Ape, The Babe Ruth Story) and on TV's The Life of Riley, a series about a dopey factory riveter that so tickled the viewers it ran for eight years, bringing Bendix some $3,000,000 in salary-which, as he put it, "isn't bad for a guy who was on relief in 1934"; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles...
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Gene Barry stars in this new series about a Rolls-Royce-driving, millionaire detective. The opening segment is also rich in guest stars, including Suzy Parker, William Bendix, Bruce Cabot, Will Rogers Jr., ZaSu Pitts, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Fred Clark and Rod Cameron. Premi...
...Theater of Michigan is gambling its future on two productions this season. The first is General Seeger, a new play by Ira (No Time lor Sergeants) Levin, which opened last week at Detroit's Shubert Theater to cheers from noisily partisan audiences. Directed by Scott, it stars William Bendix as a U.S. Army major general who discovers that the supposedly gallant death of his soldier son was actually a suicide faked as heroism by Army flacks. General Seeger will undergo the ordeal by fire when it moves to Broadway next week...
Detroit's Kelsey-Hayes Co. got ready to step up shelter production from 100 to 250 units a day. In Cincinnati, the Bendix Corp. reported a 1.000% increase in orders for its "Family Radiation Kits"-fallout-detection devices. In California's San Fernando Valley, Joseph Nathanson, a Los Angeles public relations man, gravely watched a flatbed trailer truck thunder down Sepulveda Boulevard carrying a giant, tar-coated concrete cylinder with apertures for vent pipes and doors. "It gives you a jolt, seeing that shelter going down the road," he said. "A year ago I'd have snickered...
Falmouth, Mass., Playhouse: Father of the Bride, with William Bendix...