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Died. Arthur Oncken Lovejoy, 89, professor of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University from 1910 to 1938, author of the 1936 classic on man's idea of his place in the universe, The Great Chain of Being; of a stroke; in Baltimore. Once asked if he believed in God, during a fitness exam for a Maryland state board of regents, Lovejoy spun out 33 definitions of God, then asked his examiner which meaning he had in mind; he was confirmed...
Died. Frank Lovejoy, 50, character actor, last seen on Broadway as the bigoted Senator in The Best Man; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Kennebunkport, Me., Kennebunkport Playhouse: Frank Lovejoy and Shepperd Strudwick in Gore Vidal's 1960 political pot-an-feu, The Best...
...occupied New Orleans and became known throughout the South as "Beast" Butler. Illinois' Senator Stephen A. Douglas, with his massive head and dwarfish body, was a man in the middle; in his efforts to please North and South, he became anathema to both. Illinois' Republican Representative Owen Lovejoy had seen his older brother, an abolitionist, killed by an Alton mob, and he knew what he thought about slavery: "It has the violence of robbery, the blood and cruelty of piracy, it has the offensive and brutal lusts of polygamy, all combined and concentrated in itself...
Better Board than Head. Karate has won the allegiance of such as Actors Rory Calhoun, Macdonald Carey, Nick (The Rebel) Adams and TV Detectives Frank Lovejoy, Darren McGavin, and Rick (Dangerous Robin) Jason. Elvis Presley, who learned the sport in Germany as a G.I., now spars with two sidekicks during moviemaking lulls, and even Film Composer Bronislaw Kaper has taken to the loose white gi suit worn for karate lessons...