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...KATHY LEEB Cleveland...
...screen star Hope Hampton, who has been making opening-night scenes as long as most people can remember, was there in $3,000 worth of white beads; Mrs. F. Raymond Johnson, whose husband is a Revlon vice president, wore her gold, green and blue sequins on her eyelids; Maxine Leeb (who got married there last June) turned up in a bodice of bird breasts; Mrs. Huntington Hartford, a shy ex-model, all but hid her light under a bushel of ostrich feathers; and Senator (for a few days more) Kenneth Keating wore his well-known white-on-white hair...
Died. Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 79, brilliant, Bavarian-born boss of the German army that shattered France's Maginot Line in 1940, sometime (1941-42) commander of the Nazi forces on Russia's northern front, coruscant author (Defense, Chronicle of the Leeb Family); after long illness; in Augsburg, Germany. One of Hitler's most trusted theoreticians, Aristocrat Leeb finally broke with the Fuhrer over Russian campaign strategy, retired...
...Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb, 68, lizard-eyed besieger of Leningrad...
...must also state that the defeat in White Russia is not the only example of Hitler's ineptitude as a commander. When Field Marshals von Leeb, List, von Rundstedt, von Bock and von Brauchitsch, Colonel General Haider and many others attempted to point out these mistakes Hitler dismissed them from their posts. . . . The newer generals, however, such as Rommel, Dietl, Schorner, Keitel and others who had not gone through a long military schooling failed to perceive these mistakes...