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...Died. Kent > Roberts Greenfield, 74, historian of the U.S. Army in World War II, a Johns Hopkins history professor who in 1946 was chosen to compile the Army's official wartime chronicle, with a staff of 275 sifted through 17,120 tons of records, frequently popping across the hall from his Pentagon office to grill the general "who was there" (Told by one scholar that his work would have no 'perspective, he snapped, "Neither can you interview Caesar"), and produced 51 of 80 planned volumes before retiring in 1958; of a heart attack; in Baltimore...
...film roles. That seems understandable enough, since her father is Actor John Mills (Tunes of Glory), one of Britain's peerless pros, and her mother is Playwright Mary Hayley Bell. When the family was not on location, Hayley grew up in Berkeley Square, or on a Kent farm, and was educated at Elmhurst Ballet School. She and her brother Jonathan and sister Juliet were warned that the theater was "a jungle." But just in case, recalls their mother, "I made sure I gave them names that would look nice on a marquee." Juliet, 25, is a West End actress...
...alofa, bringing baskets of mutton, lobsters, crabs and other delicacies for His Royal Highness. More than 3,000 pigs were roasted whole for the coronation-day dinner. Thirty huge turtles taken from pens outside the King's palace went into the royal soup. The Duke and Duchess of Kent, and Governor John A. Burns of Hawaii representing President Johnson, were among 3,000 guests who knelt on mats in the malae (palace park), ate (with fingers) such South Sea exotica as lupuhi -chicken and duck broiled in coconut sauce-and joined Tongans in consuming vats of a mildly narcotic...
...long and crowded career as painter, illustrator, dairy farmer, explorer, author and lecturer, Rockwell Kent, 85, of Ausable Forks, N.Y., has also found time for a procession of leftist causes, from the Wobblies on. As a token of their appreciation, the Soviets this spring awarded him a Lenin Peace Prize worth 25,000 rubles (officially $27,775). Not to be outdone, Kent disclosed that he has donated $10,000 of it to "the suffering women and children of Viet Nam's Liberation Front" as "a token of my shame and sorrow." Next it was the U.S. Treasury...
ALEX GILDZEN Co-Editor Toucan Kent, Ohio...