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DIED. Melvyn Douglas, 80, veteran stage and film actor and a two-tune Oscar winner for his supporting roles in Hud (1963) and Being There (1979); of pneumonia; in New York City. The son of Russian-born Concert Pianist Edouard Hesselberg, Douglas made his Broadway debut in 1928. In 1931 he married Actress Helen Gahagan, who later became a noted political activist and Congresswoman from California. After establishing himself as a suave, romantic leading man during the 1930s and 1940s by playing opposite such stars as Greta Garbo (Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman...
...Johnny Desmond. Among Jews, Izzy Itskowitz probably needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...
...Nazi Germany while he was Ambassador to England on the eve of World War II. Similar rumors spread that in the heat of Nixon's California senatorial campaign against Helen Gahagan Douglas in 1950, he sneered that she was married to Actor Melvyn Douglas, "whose real name is Hesselberg."* New York's Negroes (980,000) generally vote Democratic, but Kennedy lost some support among Negro leaders by putting Lyndon Johnson on the ticket, may have won some back now that Harlem's top politico, Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, is campaigning for him. Nixon gained ground in Harlem...
...enough, Heyerdahl had no trouble in raising his crew of five, all but one of whom were landlubbers and all itching to go. Herman Watzinger, an engineer, and Ethnologist Bengt Danielsson invited themselves when they heard about the stunt. Knut Haugland, Tor-stein Raaby and guitar-playing Painter Eric Hesselberg all jumped at the chance when they were asked. There is no indication, in the book at least, that they regretted it for a moment...
...Engine? Once a whale shark larger than the raft itself came alongside, but it gave no trouble, not even when Hesselberg begged for it by plaguing the visitor with a harpoon. As for mere sharks, they worried no one: it became sport to haul them aboard by the tail with the bare hand. The Kon-Tiki's food kept well, stored below the deck in asphalt-coated containers, and seafood was a glut in the galley. Flying fish, good eating, practically flung themselves at the frying...