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Died. Mario Crespi, 82, multimillionaire co-owner (with his two surviving brothers, Aldo and Vittorio) of Milan's staid daily Cornere della Sera, Italy's biggest (circ. 450,000), most influential paper, a landowner, industrialist and art collector; after a long illness; in Milan...
Splashed over three columns of the staid New York Law Journal was an account of how the feathers flew when gravel-voiced Comic Bert Lahr, 66, went to court over a duck who swiped his style. Back in 1961, Lahr slapped a $500,000 suit on the Adell Chemical Co., Inc. and a producer of TV commercials, for featuring a duck that sounded as if it had Lahryngitis. The actor speaking for the duck, quacked Lahr's lawyer, not only "misappropriated" Lahr's distinctive delivery, but also injured his reputation by giving the impression "that he was reduced...
Contributions continued to pour in Yesterday, however, as undergraduate donations soared past the $400 mark, staid gifts and sustained undergraduate generosity should push the final total near the $650 goal. Donations are still being accepted at the CRIMSON building and in Goldmark's room...
...Casino stage-successor to the Howard where "Buffalo Bill" Cody, John Wilkes Booth and Gypsy Rose Lee performed for beyond a century--has been the scene of the most riotous productions in staid New England history. Across the Casino ramp have scurried some of the best-set headliners of latter day burlesque, in some of their least-dressed performances...
TelAutograph, he said, "has never completed so little or lost so much." In general, however, this spring's improved earnings outlook (see above) seemed to reduce tensions between shareholders and management. At staid IBM's meeting, Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. set off general giggling with his candid explanation as to why the company was enlarging its collection of early scientific models rather than paintings. "My father was the art expert," he said dryly. "We have been turning more to collections of Leonardo da Vinci models-something I can understand." At many meetings, too, attendance was smaller than...