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Died. Joseph Wood Krutch, 76, author and critic, who in his later years won renown as a naturalist and conservationist; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Prolific as well as scholarly, Krutch reviewed plays for the Nation from 1924 to 1952, during which time he published a dozen volumes of literary biography and theatrical history. In 1950 he left New York for Tucson, where he fashioned a new career out of his love of nature; his writings celebrated the land and its creatures (The Desert Year, The Forgotten Peninsula, The Great Chain of Life), and expressed a yearning for a simpler...
...race. Though the Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...
...creator has become an anticreator and his greatest achievement is to discover how he can leave out some thing that has never been left out before," noted disenchanted Cultural Guardian Joseph Wood Krutch, 74, in the American Scholar. Take Twiggy, for example-"a fashion sensation because all the secondary sexual characteristics of the female were totally lacking." And the Twig is only part of the pattern, Krutch said. "The miniskirt is halfway to becoming a non-skirt. When it has reached its entelechy and is then designed to accompany a topless blouse, the anti-costume will be complete and just...
...NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Naturalist-Author Joseph Wood Krutch is the guide for a trip through the Grand Canyon starting at the rim, taking a ride down the Colorado River rapids and stopping for a visit with the Havasupai Indians. Repeat...
GRAND CANYON (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Naturalist Joseph Wood Krutch is guide for a mule trip from the rim to the bottom of the canyon and a boat ride down the Colorado River rapids. Color...