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Popular Principal. If educational aims were obscured in Anaheim by public interference with the delicate relationship between school boards and superintendents, they have been virtually obliterated in an acrid fog of controversy that has settled on the isolated Massachusetts is land of Nantucket...
Novelist-Screenwriter Peter Viertel, who was once Ava's constant companion in Paris and Mexico during the filming of The Sun Also Rises some years ago, is also in Puerto Vallarta, since he is now the husband of Deborah Kerr, who is playing a Nantucket spinster in the film. Viertel is understandably wary of Ava, but he is also a little skittish with Director John Huston. He worked on the screenplay of Huston's African Queen and followed up with a novel called White Hunter, Black Heart, which was a thinly disguised, malicious portrait of Huston...
...intelligently lets audience imagination do the work of stage realism. He conceives of a turn-of-the-century acting troupe doing a sort of tryout rehearsal of a new drama, Moby Dick. A tall ladder serves for a mast, benches for longboats, and furled and swaying sails complete the Nantucket whaler Pequod. Pages of the novel are cut to stage cues, and the second and final act cuts to the mortal sea chase, which Director Douglas Campbell handles with brisk and believable intensity...
Involved in the ruling was a Northeast Airlines Convair that left New York's La Guardia Airport on Aug. 15, 1958, crashed while approaching Nantucket Island, Mass., and killed 25. One New York passenger's widow, Mrs. John S. Pearson, sued Northeast in a New York court, won $160,000. When the airline appealed, a three-judge federal panel upheld its claim that since the crash occurred in Massachusetts (where claims at the time were limited to $15,000), the case should have been tried there. But the full court, in a rehearing, reversed the decision. Said...
Died. Whiting W. Willauer, 55, a hard-muscled Princeton fullback ('28) turned FBI lawyer, World War II China hand and troubleshooting U.S. diplomat in Central America; of a heart attack; in Nantucket, Mass. Whitey Willauer ran the quasi-military China Defense Supplies Inc., feeding fuel and arms to General Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers," stayed on after the war to help Chennault organize and run Nationalist China's Civil Air Transport Service, "the most shot at civilian airline in history." Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Honduras, he helped quarterback the 1954 revolution that overthrew the pro-Communist...