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DIED. MINNIE PEARL, 83, comedian; in Nashville, Tennessee. Offstage she was Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon, the elegant, sophisticated neighbor of Governors. But onstage she was the country cutup whose raucous "Howww-dee!," price-tag-bedecked hat ($1.98) and 50-year search for a "feller" made her an institution at the Grand Ole Opry, where she debuted in 1940. For 20 years, she displayed her fearlessly corny humor...
DIED. BRODRICK HALDANE, 83, photographer whose status as a member of high society (Scottish son of the 26th Laird of Gleneagles) helped him capture classic images of the famous (Dietrich, Chaplin) and the powerful (President Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth); in Edinburgh. DIED. RUSSELL COLLEY, 97, dubbed the "father of the spacesuit," who designed the 1961 extraterrestrial fashion statement worn by astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. in America's first step starward; in Springfield, Ohio...
Just one week after the killing of a German tourist, Florida residents were stunned by the murder of a British visitor, the ninth foreign tourist to be killed in that state in the past year. At a highway rest stop outside Tallahassee, Gary Colley, 34, was shot to death and his female companion wounded by attackers who demanded money. Two teenagers, one just 13, have been arrested. A third is being sought...
...originated in the off- Broadway production, and producers have anointed him a bankable star. "People will be making parts for Morgan," declares producer Richard Zanuck. But Freeman has heard such talk before, and he is taking all the praise in stride. Recently, he, his second wife, costume designer Myrna Colley-Lee, and their seven-year-old granddaughter E'Dena began to live part time on their 38-ft. ketch Sojourner, which is moored in the Caribbean. "When you live in the world of make-believe, you need something real," says Freeman. "I go sailing, I'm in the real world...
...Antipodes in the early years of the 19th century, concludes the private journal he has been keeping for his godfather and patron back home. Talbot's shipboard jottings have coalesced into the remarkable story he witnesses at sea: the long scapegoating and mysterious death of Robert James Colley, an Anglican clergyman...