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...lute, a 14-string, potbellied cousin of the guitar whose more delicate strains went out of fashion two centuries ago, Bream has a special capacity to enliven the courtly archaisms of the Elizabethan and Jacobean ages. This is not only a matter of musicianship but of an instinctive sympathy for the older period's flavor, style, and more restrained decibel level. He reads about the era voraciously, fancies that he might have felt right at home in it. "I strum one chord on the lute," he says wistfully, "and I go back 400 years...
Married. Lady Sarah Spencer-Churchill, 45, Manhattan socialite daughter of the Duke of Marlborough, distant cousin of Winston Churchill; and Theodore Roubanis, 27, sometime actor, full-time playboy, and onetime companion of Actress Jeanne Moreau; she for the third time; in Philadelphia...
Died. Hulbert Taft Jr., 60, cousin of "Mr. Republican," the late Robert A. Taft, and chairman of Taft Broadcasting Co., which owns 16 radio and TV stations and produces Huckleberry Hound and The Flintstones kiddie cartoons; when leaking bottled gas exploded while he was on one of his frequent inspections of the family bomb shelter that he had constructed on his estate; in Indian Hill, a Cincinnati suburb...
...April Good tried to overturn the School Superintendent John M. Tobin's recommendation for a new head of Cambridge's home economics department. When it was discovered that Good's candidate for the job was his cousin, Duehay opened fire; the Superintendent's candidate got the job, and Good's prestige plummeted...
Dominant Role. Inland is far from being a family company, but the Block clan, which owns less than 5% of the stock, has long played a dominant role in its fortunes. Chosen last week to succeed Joe Block was his cousin, Vice Chairman Philip D. Block Jr., 61, whose father was Inland's first president. Having worked so long in Joe's shadow, Phil is regarded as a chip off the old Block who will pretty much continue his predecessor's policies...