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Los Angeles' theaters contain more than revivals of New York shows, however. Various university organizations-most notably John Houseman's Theater Group at U.C.L.A.-present first-rate productions of dramatic classics. Elsewhere in the city, productions of As You Like It and Macbeth were on the boards last...
But a worn rag on a shoestring.
Died. James Spencer Love, 65, wiry, tireless chairman of Burlington Industries, which he personally spun from a shoestring into the world's biggest textile maker (1961 sales: $866 million); of a heart attack while playing tennis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Son of a Harvard math professor, Love returned...
Nipped by the Snark. Like many another airframe company, Northrop had been started on a shoestring by a self-schooled plane designer, and was in danger of ending on one. A veteran of Douglas and Lockheed, John Knudsen Northrop had designed the Lockheed Vega used by Wiley Post and Amelia...
Courtesy A. Hitler. Assigned to set up a Protestant radio station, beamed at Europe and supported by U.S. funds, was the Rev. Paul E. Freed, 42, a Baptist minister who grew up in Syria and Palestine, where his father was a businessman turned missionary. "We started in Tangier on a...