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...routine request, and the Army responded routinely. The widow of Robert G. Thompson, a World War II staff sergeant who died last October, applied for permission to bury her husband's ashes in Arlington National Cemetery. As it happened, Hero Thompson, a Distinguished Service Cross holder, was also ex-Convict Thompson, one of eleven U.S. Communist Party leaders who were convicted in 1949 of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government. Nonetheless, the Army approved the widow's request...
...protest Thompson's burial at Arlington: "Any other decision would have been an affront to the noble young men who have given so much of their lives to our country." Tass, the Soviet news agency, condemned the decision as "a mockery of an American patriot." Thompson's widow Sylvia offered the ultimate non sequitur: "Are they now saying that Arlington is only for political conformists...
...lived in Vermont.* The U.S. Treasury also claims that it knows nothing of this vast estate, now worth $512 million, which it is supposed to be holding in trust for the rightful heirs. Such professions of ignorance do not deceive Princess Hélène Favraud Ayoubi, 45, widow of a self-styled Iraqi emir and president of the World Union of Mallet Heirs, which is dedicated to recovering the legacy. Nor was she overly fazed last week when the French government indicted her for swindling 22,000 members of the Mallet union out of $66,000 in dues...
Died. Kathleen Norris, 85, grandmother of the American sentimental novel (Passion Flower, Heartbroken Melody), widow of Author Charles G. Norris (Salt) and sister-in-law of the late social novelist Frank Norris (McTeague), a feminist and pacifist who in nearly half a century turned out 81 relentlessly wholesome books (10,000,000 copies sold), plus reportage and innumerable short stories for women's magazines; following a stroke; in San Francisco. "I write," she once said, "for people with simple needs, like myself," and her books played endless variations on a single theme: "Get a girl in all kinds...
Cassel impishly initiates a seduction while posing nude for a life class in Rome. He has his way with a working model (Irina Demick), a baker's wife (Sandra Milo), a widow (Annie Girardot) and a winsome ingenue (Catherine Deneuve)-without ever letting a hint of prurience mar his bland façade. Quite simply, he appears to have been overtaken by the sex drive before learning how to steer. According to the plot, Cassel has other things on his mind, for he plays a professional scapegrace taught by his knavish old granddad "to be an idle...