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Born. To Paul Anka, 29, teen-age singing sensation of the late 1950s, still making it big as a crooner-composer, and Anne De Zogheb, 28, his fashion-model wife of seven years: their third child, a daughter; in London...
Died. Barry Wood, 61, radio crooner on the 1940s Hit Parade who turned to TV producing; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach. Wood's credits range from the Kate Smith Show to the Bell Telephone Hour, but he is best remembered for NBC's Wide, Wide World, which from 1955 to 1958 celebrated the wonders of the continent from the Grand Canyon to the Florida Keys...
That may be partly true, but Raquel is unique among sex queens in another respect. Harlow had her seamy affairs; Hayworth her prince; Monroe her outfielder and her playwright; Taylor her high-rolling entrepreneur, Debbie's crooner and Sybil's Welsh actor. By contrast, Raquel has two children by a former marriage to her high school sweetheart, and is presently wed to an inoffensive uncelebrity named Patrick Curtis. She does not flounce around studio sets in see-through blouses by day or boogaloo at the Factory by night. She does not smoke. She does not drink. She rarely entertains. Says...
...less nasal and rasping than before, far less a mixture of drone and downward slur. The tone is softer, rounder; one note leads gracefully to the next, and the result is just as satisfying in its own way. Unexpectedly bending and holding notes like a crooner, Dylan gave a lyric, wistful quality to the traditional Irish ballad, Wild Mountain Thyme. He introduced no new songs, but older ones like It Ain't Me Babe, once intoned in harsh, jagged phrases, took on new colors and a smoother flow...
Divorced. Eddie Fisher, 40, sometime crooner-actor, onetime husband of Elizabeth Taylor; by Connie Stevens, 30, pert star of TV's Hawaiian Eye; on grounds of cruelty; after one and a half years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...