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...entry in the 1954 Phillips Academy yearbook did not inspire confidence. No college destination, no extracurricular activities and no nickname (the crudest of blows at a Northeastern prep school). In fact his sole distinction as a senior was being voted "most cynical." Still lacking a nickname, Contemporary Artist Frank Stella, 46, returned to the school at Andover, Mass., where he first got a taste for art. The occasion was the opening of an exhibition of his and other artists' work at the Addison Gallery of American Art, the only full-scale museum in the country run by a secondary...
DIED. Henry King, 96, versatile director of more than 100 films, from silent-era chestnuts like Stella Dallas (1925) to Twelve O'Clock High (1949), The Gunfighter (1950) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); in Toluca Lake, Calif. An early champion of location shooting who flew his own small plane to scout the areas he used, King had an especially sharp eye for spotting undiscovered talent and helped to launch careers for such stars as Tyrone Power, Gary Cooper, Jennifer Jones and Ronald Colman (whose dapper trademark mustache King first drew on the actor with a retouching...
Lynn Lundy of Stella Maris smiles and says firmly, "I haven't seen anything, and I don't want to." Yet death is democratic. Eight-year-old Jonathan lives in a big house on the best side of town, and until recently the closest he came to danger was hearing a big boom one night and having a bad dream about it. The major complaint in his stately neighborhood was the stink from the nearby offal factory. Now the complaint is more topical. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert Bradford, M.P, was shot to death in a suburban community...
...where people like Paul and Bernadette achieve a dubious celebrity for having had their lives shot out from under them. ut the stories of those two are not nearly as famous as Elizabeth Crawford's. Elizabeth, 16, like Bernadette, goes to Cross and Passion, but even across town in Stella Maris they know all about the Crawfords. A girl in Stella Maris recalled how beautiful Patrick Crawford was?then blushes to think that she is flirting with the dead. Patrick was 15. He was very tall, wore his hair cut short and resembled a policeman. They say that...