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Born. To Kay Williams Spreckels Gable, 42, onetime Hollywood starlet, fifth wife and widow of the late Clark Gable: his first child (she had a son and a daughter by her marriage to Sugar Millionaire Adolph Spreckels II), a son; in Hollywood. Name: John Clark Gable...
...Elizabeth Willis. 60, currently Ambassador to Norway. Stanford Ph.D. ('23) Frances Willis was the Foreign Service's first career woman to become an ambassador (to Switzerland in 1953), will find in Ceylon another woman who has risen high in a normally male domain: Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike, widow of the late Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgway Bias Bandaranaike, who has exhibited a mind of her own in leading Ceylon down the neutralist path...
...Since his death in 1956, Brecht has become a worldwide vogue. In West Germany, he has displaced Shaw in frequency of production, and ranks after Shakespeare, Goethe and Schiller. East Germany lavishly maintains his personal repertory company, the Berliner Ensemble, with its perfectionist troupe led by Brecht's widow. Paris audiences have been flocking to The Good Woman of Setzuan and Arturo Ui. London is temporarily Brechtless but saw four of his plays last season. A five-year off-Broadway run of The Threepenny Opera not long ago chalked up a New York theater record by passing...
Ingrid Bergman Special (CBS, 9-10:30 p.m.). Portraying an English widow, Actress Bergman spends most of the "Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life" in the gambling halls of Monte Carlo trying to win herself an American (Rip Torn...
...time Robert was a bachelor approaching 50. But in recent weeks Gardiner had been seen with Eunice Oakes, the striking, thirtyish widow of William Pitt Oakes (who died in 1958, 15 years after the still unsolved murder in Nassau of his father, Multimillionaire Miner Sir Harry Oakes). One columnist even overheard Bobbie gush: "She sends me." Last week the Long Island lord ended the society-page speculation, gave Eunice an olive-sized diamond (plucked from a grandmother's earring), announced that on March 21 she would be to the manor borne. Why the rush? Replied Gardiner...