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Died. Robert Lawson, 64, puckish illustrator and author of children's books (Rabbit Hill, Mr. Twigg's Mistake, Ben and Me), who won fame with his drawings of the retiring bull hero of The Story of Ferdinand (written by Munro Leaf); of a heart attack; in Westport, Conn...
...well by all three. At one time it appears as if the only letters McGough and Baxter are likely to win in life are four-letter ones, but Baxter (like Author Ham) becomes an insurance salesman and McGough winds up amid semi-rustic bliss in Westport, Conn. There is a suitable epitaph on the abortive revolt of the generation of the '30s when the once-terrible McGough asks: "You want to see our cow, Baxter?'' Where are the sledge hammers of yesteryear...
...Tunnel of Love (by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries; based on DeVries' novel) suggests at the outset a satiric cannonade on that citadel of Exurbanites and seacoast bohemia, Westport, Conn. But it soon abandons anything so highbrow and becomes an illustrated jokebook on styles in childbearing. When married women aren't having children, unmarried ones are; or couples are adopting; or the sins of the fathers become the adoptees of their wives...
Died. Howard Brubaker, 74, puckish paragrapher (1925-50) for The New Yorker; of cancer; in Westport, Conn...
JOHN C. OTTINGER JR. Westport, Conn...