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...Robert F. Duryea, 49, has been a priest for 25 years. He has also been married, it turned out, for nearly seven of them. While serving as chaplain at San Jose's O'Connor Hospital, he had struck up a friendship with a young nurse named Lualan O'Connor, now 30. "Hospitals are such timeless places," he recalls. "It seems like such a dreamlike thing." A sympathetic priest married them quietly. Duryea settled his wife in nearby Santa Clara. A son came along 1½ years later, and the couple named him Paul, after Pope Paul...
Died. Dan Duryea, 61, Hollywood's slippery heel (Black Bart, Terror Street, Manhandled); of cancer; in Hollywood. Duryea sparkled as a versatile actor whose rough treatment of women shocked audiences and censors alike (1945's Scarlet Street was banned in New York, probably for his ungentlemanly slapping of Actress Joan Bennett). He went on to portray a modified villain, recently appeared in roles that allowed him to play the gentle soul for a change...
TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Stranger on the Run, filmed as part of the "World Premiere" series especially for TV, with Henry Fonda, Michael Parks, Anne Baxter, Dan Duryea and Sal Mineo...
Died. J. Frank Duryea, 97, co-designer with his brother Charles of the U.S.'s first gasoline-powered automobile, who in 1893 contrived a horseless carriage powered by a single-cylinder engine hooked up to the wheels by a leather belt, bucked and bumped 200 ft. down the street in Springfield, Mass., before the contraption broke; of arteriosclerosis; in Old Saybrook, Conn...
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren...