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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...
...Toluca Lake, Calif...
...discipline and dedication to duty, traits acquired from his grandfather, who in 1922 founded an anti-Communist organization named the Better America Foundation, and a father whose abiding interest was the Salvation Army. His organizational talents appeared early: when he was 14, Haldeman turned the family's Toluca Lake, Calif., home into a summer camp for neighborhood children. Later, while at U.C.L.A. (B.S. in business administration), he managed the unsuccessful campaign for student body vice president of Jeanne Fisher, John Ehrlichman's wife...
...whose cars and trucks it assembles in Mexico. The sale fulfills government directives to spread ownership and to increase the "local content" of autos assembled in Mexico. Auto-Mex (15,308 vehicles a year) will use the money it takes in to build a $15 million engine plant at Toluca, 40 miles from Mexico City, from which Chryslers 60% made in Mexico will eventually emerge...
Simonton's own Wurlitzer is one of the largest home installations in the U.S. Housed in a private 63-seat movie theater in the basement of his Toluca Lake home in North Hollywood, the organ is a four-manual 36-ranker, identical in size to the instruments in Manhattan's Paramount Theater, the Fox theaters in Detroit, St. Louis, Brooklyn and San Francisco.* Nucleus of Simonton's organ was a 19-rank job from Paramount Studios in Hollywood, to which he has added a new four-manual console and ten additional tons of pipework...