Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Howard Schenken, 75, champion contract bridge player and theorist; of a brain tumor; in Palm Springs, Calif. Abandoning billiards for bridge when he was in his 20s, Schenken played on four world-title teams and won a record five Life Master Pair Championships during his 50-year career, as well as devised such now standard game practices as the prepared opening bid, the weak two-bid and the forcing two-over-one response...
DIED. Jean Renoir, 84, master French film maker whose work strongly reflected his own ironic wit, love of nature and sympathetic curiosity about human behavior; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Son of Impressionist Painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jean as a red-haired child often posed for him and later married one of his models. With his wife as the star, Renoir directed his first movie in 1924; during the next 45 years he directed and wrote some three dozen films, among them such masterpieces as Toni (1934), the antiwar Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules...
Dorothy B. Newell Glendale, Calif...
MARRIED. Susan Ford, 21, photographer and only daughter of former President and Mrs. Gerald R. Ford; and Charles Frederick Vance, 37, Secret Service agent who met his bride in June 1977 while guarding her father; she for the first time, he for the second; in Palm Desert, Calif...
...capsule descriptions of big-ticket real estate offerings (minimum asking price: $250,000) whose total value on a given day may reach more than a billion dollars. Some of the items on the block at last month's market day an interest in an $80 million Palm Springs Calif, resort, a British island in the Pacific, a $10 million bank in Aspen, Colo and $850,000 worth of property in Dallas...