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...Commencement the parents of graduates would come in and thank Fred, saying that they could have never afforded Harvard without the low prices at Keezers Salo's widow Dorothy said yesterday...
DIED. Anne Hewlett Fuller, 87, widow of Futurist Inventor R. Buckminster Fuller, who suffered a fatal heart attack while visiting his comatose wife's bedside; after an intestinal operation; in Los Angeles. Although she did not learn of his death, Mrs. Fuller died 36 hours after her husband. They were buried together last week in Cambridge, Mass...
DIED. Mary Livingstone, 77, Jack Benny's widow and comedy partner in radio and television; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Born Sadye Marks, she married Benny in 1927 after he saw her in a May Co. department store. On short notice one night, she assumed the bit role of Corny Poet Mary Livingstone on Benny's radio show, and listener response made her a regular. In 1949 she legally changed her name, claiming, "Even my husband calls me Mary...
...Nine O'clock News, is conducting a valiant but vain effort to revive the corpse of Charley's Aunt. Most of the cast treats this 1892 farce as reverently as if they were playing Westminster Abbey; Rhys Jones, dressed for most of the play in widow's weeds, at least manages a passable impression of Margaret Rutherford imitating Queen Victoria...
...invited unsuccessfully in both years. In 1981, the University asked President Reagan to deliver the Commencement address, after the White House had sent out signals that the chief executive might be interested in making such a speech. The next year Harvard offered the platform to Jihan Sodat, the widow of the recently claim Egyptian leader. Both sent rejection letters...