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...between his interests and Tod's. When Rocky first made known his plans for divorce, his wife, his brothers and his advisers tried to get him to change his mind-but Rockefeller was adamant. The November announcement of the marital breakup came like political thunder. Then, less than 48 hours later, came word of the loss of the Rockefellers' youngest son, Michael, in the waters off New Guinea, and the Governor's futile and compulsive race to the Far East...
Where Curtal was "like thunder at a Dicnic," Stanhope resembled high tea under the vicar's elms. Born into the Establishment and determined to stay there, Stanhope found the leisure to write poetry and critical appreciations of Corneille by marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...
Died. Jesse Crawford, 66, paragon of U.S. theater organists, who rose from cornetist in a Seattle orphanage to the gilded consoles of the movie palaces' mightiest Wurlitzers without formal keyboard training, earned as much as $150,000 a year as the brilliantined virtuoso of the treacle-to-thunder style he called "the violets and Wagner stuff"; of a heart attack; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
Died. Michael Curtiz (pronounced Curtease), 73, Oscar-winning (for Casablanca) Hollywood director, a leathery Hungarian import who, in a 35-year career spent largely with Warner Bros., directed 80-odd films ranging from blood and thunder (The Charge of the Light Brigade) to canned Americana (White Christmas), was famed for his malapropisms ("Make a love nest") and his gall (he cut the sermon to the birds out of Francis of Assist as "too corny"), but stubbornly insisted "I put all the art into my pictures I think the audience can stand"; of cancer; in Hollywood...
During a three-hour session over sherry and dinner at Winthrop House, Steen compared the American radical right to the Socialist People's Party of Norway, a splinter group which favors unilateral disarmament and Norwegian withdrawal from NATO. "They are similar in tone and approach to your 'thunder on the right.' They don't like it that Norway is on this 'globe; they want to live apart from the world," he said...