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Died. J. Anthony Smythe, 80, a real-life bachelor who was a father image to three decades of radio listeners as Hen ry Barbour, patriarch on One Man's Family, over which he presided for 26 years (until the program went off the air in 1959) with a mellifluous voice and an air of kindly concern about the trials of his growing family, striking a responsive chord with millions of fans who faced the Depression, the War and even the Kinsey Report comforted by hearing Father Barbour's paternal insights; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...Ipcress File and the bestselling Funeral in Berlin, this one winds along a serpentine of intrigue that defies both credibility and comprehension. It involves an anonymous secret agent, a fetching and murderous Finnish girl, a linear computer that can call people on the telephone, and a clutch of hen's eggs inoculated with a deadly virus...
That's too harsh a team for the Dunster production; but Licht has allowed many members of his large cast to turn their characters into caricatures. Mr. Pugh, the hen-pecked husband endlessly dreaming of poisoning his wife; Mrs. Ogmore-Pritchard, who won't let boarders into her boarding house because they might breathe on the chairs -- exaggerated performances kept these and other figures forever outside the realm of credibility. Even an accomplished actress like Ellery Akers shrieked, slouched, and grimaced her way through the evening...
...other sophomore, Bill Malugen, takes the place of graduated Captain Hen Brooks at 191. Malugen, like Padlak, is enormously strong, but has little experience and is the only unknown quantity on the team. Malugen's fortunes may well be the key to how well Harvard will finish this year...
Carroll had latched onto the dernier cri: from Paris to Rome, the word was feathers. And enough of them were being used to have the Audubon Society declare a state of emergency. Dior's Marc Bohan must have robbed every hen house and bird cage on the Continent. He whipped up topcoats of grouse, full-length evening coats of grackle, blouses of speckled hen feathers and wove materials half in tweed and half in pin feathers...