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...movers in Los Angeles wheeling an entire house down the street reminds her of Haitian fairy tales about trees that switched positions during the night. It occurs to her that the trucks heading for film studios laden with subway stations would appeal to the surrealists. A man in Greenwich Village called the One-Man-Band infatuates her with his unlikely rig made...
...Dana, one of the first of many undergraduates to exercise the option of the leaves of absence, by departing after his second year to spend two years before the mast and see the world. There is John Reed, who used his Harvard education to help him write poetry in Greenwich Village, to cover the Mexican Revolution as a news correspondent and to write a book on the Russian Revolution that would lead to the adoption of his names as the titles of Communist groups in America. James Agee, who traveled to the South to report on the life...
Born. To Jason Robards Jr., 52, star of Broadway's splendid A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Fourth Wife Lois O'Connor Robards, 38, a former TV producer: their second child, first son; in Greenwich, Conn. Name: Jake...
Died. "Mama" Cass Elliot, 33, gargantuan, silvery-voiced pop-rock singer; after choking on a ham sandwich; in London. Born Ellen Naomi Cohen in Baltimore, Mama Cass sang with a few unmemorable Greenwich Village folk groups in the early 1960s before contributing her gutsy contralto to the Mamas and the Papas, the quartet that created such euphonious superhits as Monday, Monday and California Dreamin'. When the group broke up in 1968, the Earth Motherly (5 ft. 5 in., as much as 250 Ibs.) Elliot embarked on a successful solo career. More than 300 people, including such luminaries as Carol...
Died. Johanna Davis, 36, novelist and former TIME writer; after being hit by a taxi outside her Greenwich Village home; in Manhattan. Daughter of Hollywood's much-storied Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz (Citizen Kane), "Josie" Davis joined TIME in 1959 as a secretary and later wrote for its Show Business and Modern Living sections. She resigned from TIME in 1972 to work on Life Signs, a wry, witty tale of the psychic perils facing a young Manhattan mother...