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Died. Alan Wilson Watts, 58, onetime Episcopal minister who became a leading exponent of Zen Buddhism and a counterculture hero; of heart disease; near Mill Valley, Calif. Born in England, Watts came to America in 1938, lectured widely on college campuses and occasionally lived on a houseboat in San Francisco Bay. His concept of inner peace and release from what he termed "the chronic uneasy conscience of Hebrew-Christian cultures," made popular through The Way of Zen (1957) and his essay Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen (1958), earned him an enthusiastic following that ranged from hippies to psychoanalysts...
...remember being only mildly stirred to see him with Missy on his lap as he sat in the main stateroom [of Franklin D. Roosevelt's houseboat, the Larooco], holding her in his sun-browned arms." So goes Elliott Roosevelt's account of his father's affair with Marguerite ("Missy") LeHand, his secretary for 20 years. In his already controversial forthcoming book An Untold Story: The Roosevelts of Hyde Park, Elliott says that everyone within the family, including Eleanor, accepted Missy's intimacy with the President. Another skeleton Elliott rattles with apparent enthusiasm is that of Joseph...
...program called Investigation into Identity. "My life is so different now, I don't believe it," she says. Neither do some of her old "uptight friends" who cannot understand why she moved out of her home in a fashionable Detroit suburb to live alone on a 43-ft. houseboat on Lake St. Clair. Eleanor's answer is simple and straight to the point: "I don't want a conventional...
...semi-bohemian writing and wandering. The son of Cartoonist Jay Irving, who drew the comic strip Pottsy, Clifford Irving was born in New York City and graduated from Cornell in 1951. He traveled, took odd jobs -brush salesman in Syracuse, machinist's helper in Detroit-lived on a houseboat in Kashmir and taught creative writing at U.C.L.A...
Luns appears to be in perfect physical condition, but he suffers from severe backaches, which he treats by strapping on a large brace that forces him to stand erect. He swims in the summer, usually from his houseboat tied up off the village of Rijpweterinj. He regularly walks nearly a mile from his official residence to the Foreign Ministry in The Hague. He drinks very little ("It gives me a war in my stomach") and never anything stronger than wine. He leaves all dinners punctually at 10:30 unless "I want to show how much I enjoyed it." In that...