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...their laughs from Allen's wordplay and pacing. It's hard to choose, but probably the best is his answer to "Are the Findings of Doctors Who Do Sex Research Accurate?" in which he casts himself as a budding young sexologist. After picking up a young and beautiful reporter, Helen, on his way to study under the famed but eccentric sexologist Dr. Bernardo, Allen arrives to find a crumbling mansion right out of a '30's horror film. Once at the door, the two visitors are greeted by none other than Igor, a hump-backed victim...
Married. Patty Duke, 25, who nine years ago became the youngest actress to win an Academy Award (for her portrayal of Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker); and John Astin, 42, who found greater success in television comedy (The Addams Family, I'm Dickens . . . He's Fenster) than in movies (Viva Max, Candy); she for the third time, he for the second; in Washington...
...Died. Helen Traubel, 69, the Metropolitan Opera's dominant Wagnerian soprano of the 1940s and '50s; following a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A buxom woman with a gigantic voice, the St. Louis-born singer was the first fully American-trained soprano to play Isolde and the three Brünnhildes at the Met. Many critics considered her superior to her rival, Kirsten Flagstad. Independent and unstuffy, she was dropped by Met Manager Rudolf Bing for singing in nightclubs. She withdrew to care for her ailing husband and former business manager, William Bass...
...fact, the demonstrators were mostly South African students who have been protesting against inequality in education since 1959, when blacks were barred from white universities. As usual, Mrs. Helen Suzman, the tiny Progressive Party's only Member of Parliament, had an answer for the government. The Prime Minister, she told a meeting in Cape Town, was "by nature a policeman himself-never so happy as when he was, metaphorically speaking, wielding a truncheon." The trouble between students and government could hardly be settled, she added, as long as the ruling National Party continued to insist that the demonstrations were...
...Died. Helen G. Bonfils, 82, board chairman of the Denver Post, sometime actress and patron of the theater; in Denver. The younger daughter of Frederick G. Bonfils, colorful co-owner of the Post with Harry Tammen, "Miss Helen" was proprietor and principal stockholder of the largest and most important paper in the Rocky Mountain states for nearly four decades. She took time out from her publishing duties occasionally for appearances on the Denver and New York stages, but her more important theatrical role was that of angel and producer...