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Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice...
...Taylor, mother of Todd's infant daughter, was running a 102° temperature and gave up plans to go with her husband on his flight to New York last weekend. Bound for a Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky...
...Burbank Daily Review, one of California's smallest dailies (circ. 4,421), came a wire last week from the community's biggest advertisers : Burbank's twelve auto dealers. Complaining that the paper's "continued headlining" of recession news "induces retrenching of possible buyers," the telegram from Burbank's Automobile Dealers Association announced that members were canceling their ad contracts with the paper. Said the wire: "This organization will not compete in advertising on the inside with adverse headlines on the outside." Though the loss of business was a heavy blow, Review Publisher Hoyt Cater, whose...
Born. To Debbie Reynolds, 25, cinemactress (Tammy and the Bachelor), and Eddie Fisher, 29, wavy-haired jukebox champion (7 Believe): their second child, first son; in Burbank, Calif. Weight...
...dogs or cats or birds. Los Angeles' Dr. Norman Gale has made a name as a specialist in the complaints of snakes, turtles, tortoises, lizards and frogs. (Gale has performed Caesareans on two snakes; he could not save the mothers, but did not lose a single wriggling baby.) Burbank's Dr. J. Bradley Crundwell gets the feathered trade, mostly parrots, parakeets and canaries...