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Betty Friedan is another of this week's stars. She'll speak on October 13 at Austin Hall in the Ames Courtroom at Harvard Law School at 8 p.m. (Admission: $2) Friedan is probably best known as the author of "The Feminine Mystique" and the founder and first president of the National Organization for Women...
...makers of Hawaiian Punch have just been walloped with a decision allowing a rival to market a similarly packaged tropical drink called Punch 'n Fruity. In Los Angeles, the Avis Rent A Car System, now owned by Norton Simon Inc., is wrangling with the auto firm's founder, Warren Avis, over whether he can use the Avis name to start a worldwide send-flowers-by-wire network. Competing national brewers have been in a ferment over such new sound-alike low-calorie beers as Light and Lite. Even nicknames can create legal hassles. The owners of the Paris...
DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...
Mazo does so with particular flair. Without being too gossipy, his brash, kaleidoscopic view of the NYCB's Spring 1973 season is as thorough as a documentary. Mazo captured what would never have been spoken before a camera. His style is chatty: George Balanchine, founder and ballet master of the Company and probably the world's finest choreographer, is "Mr.B.", after the fashion of the dancers; choreographer Jerome Robbins ("the resident monster") is "Jerry...
DIED. Irma Duncan, 80, adopted daughter and disciple of Isadora Duncan, the flamboyant founder of modern dance; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Germany, at seven Irma Ehrich-Grimme joined Duncan's school at Grünewald as a scholarship student. She and five other "Isadorables" were later legally adopted by the famous dancer. In 1921 Irma helped her mother found a dancing school in the U.S.S.R., and after Isadora's death in 1927 brought to the U.S. a troupe of Soviet girls. She became a U.S. citizen and opened, in Manhattan, the first American Isadora Duncan School...