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Died. Henrietta Malkiel Poynter, 66, co-founder and editor of the Congressional Quarterly; of a stroke; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Convinced that the daily press missed much of what went on in Congress, Henrietta and her publisher husband Nelson (St. Petersburg Times) in 1945 started printing their Quarterly-now a weekly-which keeps tab on everything from the attendance of Senators to the doings of lobbyists. Circulation barely brushes 4,000, but includes a wide variety of organizations which pay subscription rates running higher than...
AMERICAN FOOTBALL LEAGUE ALL-STAR GAME (NBC, 1:30 p.m. to conclusion). From the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla...
Died. Waddill Catchings, 88, Wall Street financier and spectacular loser in the 1929 crash; of a kidney infection; in Pompano Beach, Fla. During the market madness of the 1920s, Catchings rose from a clerk to president of investment bankers Goldman, Sachs & Co., sat on the boards of 29 companies, and in 1928 launched Goldman Sachs Trading Corp.-a mutual fund which cost its holders close to $300 million when the price plummeted from $232 to $1.75 per share. Catchings resigned, later headed Muzak Corp. and retired last year as president of Concord Fund...
Sunday afternoon in Miami, Fla., the most overrated team in professional football will meet the most underrated. Vince Lombardi, Tex Maule, Frank Gifford, Gale Gillingham and other Green Bay Packer types will receive a comeuppance: if the Oakland Raiders don't give the AFL its first Super Bowl victory, they will come damn close...
Divorced. By Russell A. Firestone Jr., 41, heir to the tire fortune: Mary Alice Sullivan Firestone, 32, his third wife; a onetime Palm Beach schoolteacher; on grounds of extreme cruelty and adultery; after six years of marriage, one son; in West Palm Beach, Fla. The 17-month intermittent trial produced enough testimony of extramarital adventures on both sides, said the judge, "to make Dr. Freud's hair curl...