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Divorced. By Lily Pons, 54, petite (5 ft. ½ in.), French-born coloratura soprano best known a half-generation ago: Andre Kostelanetz, 56, Leningrad-born orchestra conductor and arranger of tried and true sounds; after 20 years of marriage, no children; in Juárez, Mexico...
Died. Major General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, 63, organizer and first superintendent (1921-36) of the New Jersey state police, whose name became known around the world after the 1932 kidnaping of 20-month-old Charles A. Lindbergh Jr.; of a perforated ulcer; in West Orange, N.J. New Jersey's Governor Harold G. Hoffman thought more people were responsible for the death of the Lindbergh baby than Bruno Hauptmann, who was executed for the crime. Calling Schwarzkopf's investigation "the most bungled police job in history," the Governor refused to reappoint him. West Pointer Schwarzkopf went on to more...
Weinberg is less well known as an expert on the stock market. Last May he advised one and all to buy; last week he said that the market was too high: "Some stocks are selling at 50 and 60 times earnings. You just can't do that.'' Weinberg's reputation extends far beyond Wall Street. He has served as a director of so many companies (General Electric, General Foods, Continental Can, Ford, B. F. Goodrich) that he thumbs through a notebook to see on which of 35 boards he still serves. Weinberg has a third field...
Inspector Maigret (Lopert). One dark night a woman is stabbed to death in the Rue des Rosiers. Five minutes later the criminal calls the Paris police and challenges Inspector Maigret to catch him. Enter Maigret-sometimes known as "the French Hercule Poirot"-the hero of at least 44 romans policiers by Georges Simenon and generally conceded to be one of the most believable bloodhounds in the literature. Plain, paunchy, respectable, he has the shrewdness as well as the looks of a village grocer; and in this film he is played to the liverish life by Jean Gabin...
When Author Nikos Kazantzakis died last year at 74, he was known to U.S. readers mostly for his novel Zorba the Greek, a flashing testament to the proposition that every minute of life should be lived to the sensuous, sensual hilt. At least twice, reportedly, he failed to win the Nobel Prize by the narrowest of margins. By taking for his own the name of Homer's poem, by adopting Odysseus as his own hero, Kazantzakis has underlined the audacity of his undertaking. His 33,333 lines measure its vastness. But the poem's real boldness lies...