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Died. Spring Byington, 84, the durable character actress whose sympathetic screen portrayals contradicted Philip Wylie's image of pernicious momism; of cancer; in Hollywood. "Why should I object to playing mothers all the time on the screen?'' Miss Byington once asked. "Mothers scheme and plan and love with all the versatility of a three-ring circus." Though her maternal roles included Marmee in the 1933 screen classic Little Women and Mickey Rooney's all-knowing mom in the first Andy Hardy film, she reached the zenith of her career in the mid-1950s as the fluttery...
Died. Alberto Byington Jr., 60, Brazilian tycoon who pyramided his father's multimillion-dollar holdings by establishing Brazil's first movie, record and air-conditioning companies, added a network of 22 radio stations, 250 cold storage plants, and a major bauxite development-all on top of a vast coffee empire; of hepatitis; in Rio de Janeiro...
...Curious Savage is John (Teahouse) Patrick's 1950 comedy about an eccentric widow kept luxuriously in a mental institution by her family to prevent her from giving away her fortune. Spring Byington will play the part created by Lillian Gish. Ogunquit, Me.; Falmouth, Mass.; Fitchburg, Mass.; Laconia, N.H.; Ivoryton, Conn...
...River Valley, and the big Boeing 707 jetliner was just 16 minutes out of El Paso on a routine Continental Airlines run from Los Angeles to Houston. In the darkened cabin, most of the passengers dozed in their seats. "I was about half asleep," recalls Air Force Recruit Robert Byington, "when I saw one of the stewardesses being pushed up the aisle by a young guy about 17." Byington did not see the revolver pressed against the girl. "She didn't look like she was scared, and I thought this fellow was just fooling around." But in the cockpit...
...last week named its first ambassador to the new Southeast Asian nation of Malaya. Appointed by President Eisenhower: Career Diplomat Homer Morrison Byington Jr., 49, born of U.S. parents at Naples, Italy, educated at Phillips Academy and Yale ('30), veteran of foreign service in Cuba, Yugoslavia, Italy (ten years) and Spain, credited by old foreign service hands as having "the smoothness with which machinery rolls." Last job: minister of the U.S. mission in Madrid...