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DIED. GUNDER HAGG, 85, Swedish runner who held the world record--4:01.4--for running the mile, from 1945 until 1954, when Roger Bannister, with his 3:59.4 time, ran the world's first mile in less than four minutes; in Malmo, Sweden...
...effective counterpoint to the narrative (as in 2001), and the entire mode of storytelling--a mosaic held together by the director's editing--is so self-propelled that nothing but action or obligatory dialogue becomes an integral part of the story. John Barry's production design and Russell Hagg's art direction drop sexual decorations and phallic sculptures in the midst of sterile modern architecture: a vain attempt to indict a Zeitgeist through innuendo. The gracelessness of the photography, however, is perhaps the most telling aspect of Mr. Kubrick's growing arrogance as a director. In vain, we wait...
Divorced. By Betty Grable, 48, Hollywood's wartime pinup queen (Million Dollar Legs), now often gamboling on the Las Vegas stage (Guys and Dolls): Harry Hagg James, 49, once perhaps the world's greatest trumpet virtuoso, still tooting as a successful bandleader; on uncontested grounds of extreme cruelty; after 22 years of marriage, two children; in Las Vegas...
...Bird. In Deep River, Conn., Ronald G. Hagg, found guilty of swerving his car to kill a pheasant, was fined $50 for 1) using a motor vehicle in hunting, 2) hunting out of season, 3) hunting on Sunday, 4) driving on the wrong side of the road...
...Melbourne, Australian Miler John Landy, aiming for a world record four-minute mile, came within a breathtaking two seconds of it in 4:02, just six-tenths off Gunder Hagg's record of 1945. Plainly discouraged, Landy said, "I've done as well as I can. I'm running for fun from now on. If I do the four-minute mile, it will be a fluke...