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Died. Konrad Bercovici, 79, jack of all literary trades and 1920s bestseller, a gentle giant with a Stalinesque mustache who successively won fame as a foreign correspondent, novelist (Savage Prodigal) and film writer (The Volga Boatman) but put the best of his talent into Ghitza and The Story of the Gypsies, sentimental chronicles of the gypsy life he had first observed during an impressionable boyhood in Rumania; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...more than newsreel shots and selected quotes. Its staff of nearly 250 has also collected brief, extraordinary commentaries from the low and the mighty of the Churchill years-housewives. Tommies, Clement Attlee, Eisenhower, Truman, De Gaulle. One of the best offers a light footnote to dark tension. A Thames boatman remembers his Channel crossing for the Dunkirk evacuation 20 years ago, says he finished off a bawtla whisky on the way 'ome. "The wife said, 'Are you tired or drunk?' I said, 'Both...
...Boatman William C. Scott...
...gaunt crane, to 341-lb., 6 ft. 2½ in. Actor Victor Buono, who looked like a healthy hippo. As they puffed around the swimming pool to the recorded strains of the River Kwai March or splashed through the 'Balinese Water Dance" to the tune of the Volga Boatman, they were all pursuing the traditional Hollywood ideal of a wealthy mind in a healthy (or at least good-looking) body...
Born. To Amelia Eden Borelli, 26, Sir Anthony's niece, who ran off to the Italian island of Ischia last year to marry a $34-a-week ferryboat engineer, and Boatman Giovanni Borelli, 30: a daughter; in London, where the couple is visiting. Name: Chaira Maria. Weight...