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Died. Martha Baird Rockefeller, 75, onetime concert pianist, second wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and stepmother to the five Rockefeller brothers and their sister, Mrs. Jean Mauzé; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Young Martha Baird played under such conductors as Pierre Monteux, Sir Thomas Beecham and Serge Koussevitzky. She retired in 1931, married Rockefeller in 1951 and became a generous patroness of music. Besides establishing the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music to aid young musicians, she backed the recent Metropolitan Opera productions of Norma and Fidelio and the New York City Opera...
...Rita Dallas, 50, who took care of the paralyzed Joseph P. Kennedy for most of the last eight years of his life (1961-69), and serves up a smorgasbord of anecdotage in the current Ladies' Home Journal. Tidbits: The Kennedy boys were not shy about their bodies, as Widow Dallas discovered when Mother Rose Kennedy asked her to deliver towels to Ted and three friends in the sauna. In the White House, John F. Kennedy once summoned her for an interview while he was soaking in the tub. "I was so uncomfortable that I took a washcloth...
Green, who is white, claims he was not allowed to enter a lecture last Thursday in Sanders Theatre. The lecture was by Shirley Graham Dubois-widow of W.E.B. DuBois '88-who was invited by the Afro-American Studies Department to speak on the situation in Africa and the Mid-East...
...people were turned away from a lecture given by Shirley Graham DuBois, widow of W.E.B. DuBois '88, and sponsored by the Afro-American Studies Department. Some of those excluded were told that the meeting was open only to Afro-American Society members and their guests; others were told it was only open to "Africans...
...almost inconceivable that anti-Semitism is not a common factor. That conclusion is reinforced by events in Czechoslovakia. Since the Soviet invasion in 1968, the Czechoslovak authorities have often resorted to blaming Jews for Alexander Dubcek's liberal "counterrevolution." Last week the Czechoslovak party expelled the widow and son of Rudolf Slansky, the Jewish party leader who was executed in 1952 after a blatantly anti-Semitic political trial...