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Bird in The Bert...
...deeply moved by Bert Lahr's death [Dec. 15]. Having directed the late star in Aristophanes' comedy, The Birds, at the Ypsilanti, Mich., festival, I feel obliged to express my sympathy to all of the Americans for the loss of that comic genius...
...Billy Graham, 49, recovering at West Virginia's Greenbrier hotel from a moderate case of virus pneumonia; New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing at Columbia-Presbyterian after removal of a benign growth near the brain...
...Harvard 9, Dartmouth 6--Yovicsin turned the sleight-of-hand on Dartmouth, as Harvard scored the winning touchdown on a 30-yard halfback pass off a double reverse, Bruce McIntyre to Bert Messenbaugh...
...wheels of their own. The victory meant a fat paycheck of $8,900 per man, v. $5,600 for the Red Sox. Something else too. Just before their homeward-bound jet took off from Boston-and as the first of 8,000 welcomers arrived at St. Louis' Lam bert Airport-a surprise message was telegraphed from the White House inviting the Cardinals to stop over in Washington for a presidential reception. Owner August A. Busch Jr., an old L.B.J. pal, regretfully declined. Wired Gussie: "Our fans are waiting...