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Died. James Wong Howe, 76, Oscar-winning cinematographer (for The Rose Tattoo, 1955, and Hud, 1963); after a long illness; in Hollywood. Born in China and named Wong Tung Jim, the diminutive (5 ft.) Howe was so harassed by his Pasco, Wash., schoolmates that he became a professional prizefighter. Seeing a Mack Sennett comedy being filmed in the streets, he asked for a job as cameraman but was rejected as too small for heavy equipment; he eventually caught on as assistant to Cecil B. De-Mille. Noted for his constant efforts to achieve realism, Howe once filmed John Garfield...
Like a ghost from the past, an ancient blue-and-silver Swallow biplane last week zipped down the runway and into a dawn sky over Pasco, Wash. About two hours and 244 miles later the tiny two-seater landed at Boise, Idaho, to a cheering crowd. The journey was a rerun of the nation's first airmail flight by an outfit (Varney Air Lines) that later became part of United Airlines, and its purpose was to mark a half-century of commercial aviation in the U.S. The milestone, however, comes at a less than auspicious time for most major...
...play laced with some of Shakespeare's most musical poetry, Richardson delivers his lines with inflexible metronomic monotony. Only Richard Pasco as Bolingbroke has a regal voice and bearing. He and Richardson switch roles at every other performance, but Pasco does not alter the effete interpretation of the King...
...shift became most visible after Peru's leftist military government on Jan. 1 seized the U.S.-owned Cerro de Pasco Corp. The U.S. Government's response to the takeover of the largest mining company in Peru was discreet silence. Instead, quiet negotiations over compensation are going on in Lima between U.S. and Peruvian government representatives...
...When she refused to tell a Pasco County, Fla., judge where she got information for a story on a grand-jury proceeding, St. Petersburg Times Reporter Lucy Ware Morgan was sentenced to five months in jail (TIME, Nov. 26). The Times's lawyers then appealed, arguing, among other things, that Mrs. Morgan's refusal to name sources might be considered an act of contempt only if she balked before the grand jury in question. Quick to oblige, State Attorney James T. Russell hauled Mrs. Morgan before the grand jury and again demanded her sources. She again declined...