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Died. Marshall Kay, 70, Columbia University geologist and early proponent of the theory of continental drift; in Englewood, N.J. Kay's reconstruction of continental movements in 1948 showed that the boundaries of North America were delineated over 400 million years ago by undersea volcanic upheaval. He also predicted that Japan would one day merge with the Asian mainland. An organizer of the 1967 Gander conference on continental drift, Kay was honored with the Geological Society of America's top award...
Died. Tyree Glenn, 61, veteran jazz musician equally proficient on trombone and vibraphone; after a brief illness; in Englewood, N.J. A mainstay of Louis Armstrong's All-Stars, Glenn also played with such men as Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton and Benny Carter. His distinctive trombone style was once described as being "like a great blues singer, like Bill Broonzy in brass...
...bachelor, Fox lives in a 26-room gray stone mansion in Englewood, N.J. He keeps himself fit swimming 30 laps daily in his 70-ft. heated indoor pool. He usually takes his dip after a midnight-to-3 a.m. practice session. Then he retires around 5 a.m. and rises at 3 the next afternoon. "I had to wait until I was 58 years of age till I reached the height of my usefulness," Fox explains. "People need Bach and God, and there ain't one violinist or singer that can give the sweeping feeling an organist can. I play...
...Englewood, N.J., Child Psychoanalyst Ira Mintz reports the feeling among many young people that they are not yet ready for sex; yet they soon discover that society expects them to embrace the new "freedom." For students, Mintz says, "there is no place to hide, no cur few behind which to take refuge, no rule that can be invoked without loss of face." Both men and women feel the pressure. Gynecologist David Chapin, consultant to a coeducational boarding school near Boston, suspects that when it comes to bragging about sexual exploits, "the girls' locker room has replaced...
...haven't told you about Groton and dear Dwight," young Anne Morrow writes to her sister from Smith College. "He was so sweet and dear and such fun." With a certain pleasant gush, these fragments evoke an age-the long-gone innocence of growing up in Englewood, N.J., in an atmosphere of affluent rectitude and Jamesian family tours of the Continent...