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This year the Broadway season opens in California - at Los Angeles' Ahmanson Theater on Sept. 12. The occasion is the U.S. premiere (and pre-New York run) of Eugene O'Neill's More Stately Mansions, his last discovered work and a sequel to A Touch of the Poet. The star is Ingrid Bergman, making her first U.S. stage appearance since 1946. And even if that combination fails to catch on, Broadway abounds with portents for one of the better seasons in years...
Died. Francisco Aguirre, 54, labor leader in pre-Castro Cuba, a onetime hotel workers organizer who as Labor Minister in the late '40s swept the nation's unions clean of Communists, in 1951 helped the A.F.L.-C.I.O. found the pro-Western ORIT (Organization Regional Inter Americana de Trabaja-dores), two years later spearheaded a novel agreement by which his union bankrolled the building of the Havana Hilton Hotel, was jailed by Castro in 1959; of unknown causes (Castro's radio merely said "suddenly"); in La Cabana prison, Havana...
...PRE-SEASON GAME (CBS, 9:30 p.m. to conclusion). In the second of five preseason games, the Baltimore Colts meet the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Louis...
...past few days, the Saigon police have rounded up 30 V.C. suspects, including the chief terrorist in the Saigon area, a man who received his demolition training in North Viet Nam. After "intensive questioning," the V.C. admitted that they were under orders to create havoc in the pre-election period by setting off mines at points carefully chosen to injure the maximum number of women and children...
Died. William Philip Spratling, 66, reviver of Mexico's Taxco silver crafts, a New York-born architect-artist who came across the impoverished, pre-Columbian silver-mining town 70 miles southwest of Mexico City in 1933, stayed on to learn the metalcraft from the few Indian artisans remaining, soon opened his own shop, and spent the rest of his life building the village into a major tourist attraction and its silver-smithies into a business employing 2,950 people; of injuries when his car crashed into an embankment; near Taxco...