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DIED. ORVILLE REDENBACHER, 88, popcorn potentate; in Coronado, California. His persona on TV spots made him an icon of, well, pure corn: the crisp bow tie, the Alfalfa-style hair, the good-natured geekiness. But beneath this hayseed hucksterism, Orville Redenbacher was the Luther Burbank of popcorn. The decades he devoted to the staple food of double features produced a gourmet hybrid that exploded to twice the size and twice the sales of its competitors...
DIED. IDA LUPINO, 77, actress, screenwriter and director; in Burbank, California. The London-born Lupino starred as the woman from the wrong side of the tracks opposite Golden Age leading men like Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield. When the director of Not Wanted (1949) collapsed from a heart attack, co-producer Lupino took the helm, thereby backing into a directing career that peaked with her popular portrait of a murderer, 1953's The Hitch-Hiker...
Sachs succeeds Dwight H. Perkins, Burbank professor of political economy, who is stepping down after 15 years to resume teaching and research on development in East and South-east Asia...
Michael P. Briggs Burbank, California Via America Online...
...seventh worker was treated for minor injuries at Burbank Hospital in Fitchburg, and released...