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Died. Thomas Bull, 96, courtly, wing-collared interior decorator, a Norwegian-born tastemaker whose elegant curlicues adorned New York's costliest mansions (among his clients: the Morgans, Vanderbilts, Woolworths) as well as Schrafft's restaurants, who outlived both his patrons and his style, never losing his firm distaste for wall-to-wall carpeting; in Manhattan...
George Kennan plainly thrives on the controversy. Says he: "It's a vacation from the strains of scholarship. I feel like a boy out of school." Kennan and his Norwegian-born wife Annelise entertain to advantage (nearly 300 Yugoslavs so far) in their house, just down the street from Tito's villa. He has had six private sessions with Tito, more than any of the 45 other ambassadors in Belgrade. He explores the countryside on horseback or by car, has been busily reading Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found...
Died. Bernt Gulbrand Morterud, 101, Norwegian-born Chicago cabinetmaker, whose identical twin, Gulbrand, still lives on in Norway-a record of longevity, defying 1 billion to 1 odds; of arteriosclerotic heart disease; in Chicago...
Died. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, 67, Norwegian-born tennis ace who won the U.S. Women's Singles championship eight times (1915 to 1927) by a trick of hitting the ball just before it reached its height; in Stockholm, Sweden...
Moment of Faith. Brother Antoninus, 46, came to his vocation through labyrinthine ways. Born William Everson in Sacramento, Calif., to a Norwegian-born bandmaster turned printer, he put in some time at Fresno State College, married his 1 high school sweetheart ("A square thing, but it happens to be the truth"), and was overwhelmed by the poetry of Robinson Jeffers. His other literary landmarks: D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer. "They were the crystallizing books of my pre-Catholic formation," says Brother Antoninus. "They have a kind...