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...DIED. Rudd Weatherwax, 77, flamboyant owner and trainer of the original Lassie and six subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star of Lassie Come Home (1943). Weatherwax also trained Asta for the Thin Man movies and Daisy for the Blondie series. Devoted to his charges, he kept the cremated remains of bygone Lassies, once vowing, "When I finally go, I'm gonna take those urns and bury them with...
Freshman Kath Vigns lost in the semifinals to top seeded Joy Cummings of Princeton, 6-4, 6-4, in the number-one singles event. Meanwhile, Erica Shulman dropped a 6-0, 6-0 thumper to top seeded Susan Rudd of Rice in her division. The Crimson's Roberta Hing and Erika Smith also each dropped first round matches...
...longstanding friendship. Kit, sophisticated and cosmopolitan, writes quality books that don't sell. Milly, banal and spitefully petty, writes trashy romances that make the bestseller's list. Milly accuses Kit of luring her husband (Jamie Wolf) and daughter Deidre (Nora Jaskowiak) from her; Deidre unwittingly sweeps Kit's boyfriend Rudd (Matthew Haynes) off his feet. None of this, however, is powerful enough to shatter the relationship between the two, which somehow manages to transcend all differences...
From the opening scene between Kit and Rudd, the play begins its descent downhill. Though Howe makes a noble attempt to enliven the show with frequent gesticulations and facial expressions, she fails to interact with the others on stage. Her performance fluctuates depending upon the scene, unlike her voice which seems locked in an interminable monotone. Haynes encounters similar difficulty. His emotions vary little throughout the performance, and he generates about as much enthusiasm for proposing marriage as he does when discussing the weather...
...most peripatetic of Congressmen, according to the report: ¶ Robert Badham, a California Republican, took nine trips in two years, seeing 29 countries, including Britain and Italy twice. ¶Frank Annunzio, an Illinois Democrat, visited Italy three times in two years, as well as eleven other countries. ¶Eldon Rudd, an Arizona Republican, made trips to the Far East twice, Latin America three times, Europe twice and an extended tour through Africa and the Middle East...