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...idea of a bed companion is a good book." So complained Bandleader Harmon Nelson Jr., first husband of Unabashable Actress Bette Davis. Last week, three husbands later, Davis, 65, gave away much of her bedtime reading to Boston University's Mugar Library. Changing homes in Westport, Conn., she donated more than 4,000 books covering four decades of theater and the arts. True to style, she overwhelmed the competition. Even though Movie Queens Myrna Loy and Joan Fontaine have given their personal papers to the same library, Special Collections Curator Howard Gotlieb will house the Davis booty in separate...
Died. Samuel Flagg Bemis, 81, longtime professor of diplomatic history at Yale (1935-60) who won two Pulitzer Prizes: in 1927 for Pinckney's Treaty, an outline of U.S. relations with Spain, and in 1950 for John Quincy Adams and the Foundations of American Foreign Policy; in Bridgeport, Conn...
Reached yesterday at the American Rhodes Scholarship Committee headquarters in Wesleyan, Conn., Barber said the state Rhodes committees can only act in conjunction with the criteria for candidacy established in the Parliamentary statute...
...most innovative developer. Began as a Baltimore mortgage banker, pioneered in building shopping centers. In 1966 began constructing new city of Columbia, Md. (current pop. 32,000), between Washington and Baltimore. Has proposed a new town on Staten Island, and a regional plan for Hartford, Conn. "Development on a large scale is the only way that land use can be rationalized, that the environment can be handled sensitively, and that the social purposes of the community can be fulfilled...
EMIL HANSLIN, 52. One of the most innovative mass home builders. Pioneered in clustering houses in recreational development of New Seabury, on Cape Cod, Mass. (1962). There, also built "special interest" villages for golfers, sailors, horsemen. Also used special groupings in a year-round planned community at Middletown, Conn. Invented idea of saving open land at Eastman, N.H., vacation-home project; each landowner gives a piece of land back to community. Newest project is farthest out: a religiously oriented, back-to-the-land community on 1,300-acre farm in Grantham...