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Died. Joseph Ridgway ("Uncle Joe") Grundy, 98, millionaire worsted-yarn spinner and Republican politician for more than half a century, whose expression of apple-cheeked innocence belied a diehard brand of economic reaction now known in political dictionaries as "Grundyism"; at Nassau, in the Bahamas. The son of a Pennsylvania Quaker textile magnate who dabbled in politics, Grundy learned early about men and machines, efficiently mobilized them for causes challenged even by some fellow Republicans as "Government by a few, for a few, at the expense of the public," but which he proudly pursued as articles of faith "next...
...furious when he saw that the hanging of four men had pushed our wedding off the front pages." Why had Billie never joined her husband's girlie galas? "My legs were too fat. But he didn't discover that until we were married." France's favorite spinner of adult bedtime stories, Novelist Francoise Sagon, 24 and recently divorced, looked at life and love in rather young-fogy fashion for an interviewer from the quarterly Transatlantic Review. Sighed she wearily: "At 19, if you like, I could have been completely changed by someone or I could have discovered...
...sometime window washer with a personality greatly appealing to himself ("I am such a sweet little guy"), Tom Clay first went to work as a record spinner at Detroit's WJBK two years ago. What happened to him thereafter until he was fired last week makes a typical case history of the deejay riding the payola trail...
North by Northwest (M-G-M). While in Manhattan shooting the early scenes of this film, Director Alfred Hitchcock grumbled that newspapers tell too many "outlandish stories from real life that drive the spinner of suspense fiction to further extremes." "Further extremes" turns out to be a point on Hitchcock's compass. Direction: North by Northwest...
...Burlington, Vt., an agricultural journal listed the contents of the stomach of a slaughtered bull: safety pins, bobby pins, cartridge casings, two rubber heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...