Word: helens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Jerome P. Cavanagh, 40, Detroit's personally controversial but politically effective mayor since 1962: Mary Helen Cavanagh, 38, onetime beauty queen; on grounds of extreme cruelty; after 16 years of marriage, eight children; in Detroit. Mrs. Cavanagh charged the mayor with drunkenness, and punching her in the stomach while she was pregnant; he said she conspired with his political enemies and used "mule-skinners' language" in front of the children. The judge gave Cavanagh custody of four of the brood. Mrs. Cavanagh says she will appeal, charging that the judge knuckled under to "political pressure...
Chandler's daily composition-he gets Saturday and Sunday off, barring a major newsbreak-takes him about two hours. Once, on deadline at the time of Helen Keller's death, he wrote a dirge in 15 minutes. "I read the news every morning," he sums up in one ballad, "and I sing the blues every...
...Left-comprising what Bayard Rustin calls the "disaffected sons and daughters of the middle class"-has found a curiously appropriate leader in Staughton Lynd. He is the Brooks Brothers man as revolutionary. Harvard graduate, former assistant professor at Yale, he is the son of Robert S. and Helen M. Lynd, authors of Middletown and Middletown in Transition, both classic sociological studies of a small city in the 1920s and 1930s. Staughton, now 38, is best known as editor of the book Nonviolence in Amer ica and as a confirmed peace marcher and self-appointed citizen-envoy to North Viet...
...Helen Hayes, D.F.A., actress...
...Died. Helen Keller, 87, whose courageous struggle against blindness and deafness gave new hope to the handicapped (see THE NATION...