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Died. Edward Arnold (real name: Guenther Schneider), 66, topnotch character actor of stage (Whistling in the Dark), screen (Diamond Jim Brady, All That Money Can Buy), .radio and TV, author (Lorenzo Goes to Hollywood); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Encino, Calif. Arnold was orphaned at eleven, played his first role (Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice) in the old East Side Settlement House. His substantial figure, resonant voice and booming laugh made him the best-known tycoon type in movies for some 25 years...
Died. Robert Mitchell Lindner, 41, topnotch psychologist, author of the case study Rebel Without a Cause, which was adapted last year by Warner Bros, for a film of the same title; of a congenital heart condition; in Baltimore...
...lecturers in the seminar room of the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kans. last week were, naturally, topnotch psychiatrists-Drs. Karl and William Menninger and key members of their staff. The talk was, naturally, about Eros and Thanatos, conscious and preconscious, repression and denial. What was surprising was the student body: 18 men from industry and a woman from a consumers' group. They had two things in common-they were responsible for the personnel policies of their organizations, and they wanted to know how psychology and psychiatry could help them with their problems. Companies represented ranged from giant...
Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...
Debussy: Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp (Decca). One of Debussy's last compositions in a topnotch performance...