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Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
...Drakensberg Mountains of South Africa, a crew financed by mighty Joe Levine is making Zulu. It concerns an incident which was a kind of Alamo in reverse-on Jan. 22, 1879, some 130 British soldiers stationed at a remote mission called Rorke's Drift successfully withstood an attack by 4,000 Zulus. The South African government, eager to see new Hollywoods springing up out of the veld, is earnestly cooperating. It has supplied soldiers, giraffes, prop men, leopards, spears-everything but phalaropes. Director Cy Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with...
...before The Game, Harvard's freshman football team withstood a strong Yale challenge and ended its season undefeated. Harvard teams in soccer, football, and touch football, on the varsity, freshman, and House levels compiled a 13-3-1 mark, humiliating the Yalies considerably more than usual...
Former Navy Secretary John B. Connally (D) withstood a strong bid by Republican Jack Cox to win election to the governorship...
Nixon has zigzagged 18,000 miles across the state, most recently whistle-stopping from Santa Cruz to San Diego in a "Victory Special" train. He has squeezed some 163,000 hands, withstood 15 solid hours of more-or-less random questions from telethon viewers. He has livened his rallies with glamorous girls, organized everything from "Giant Fans for Nixon" to "Veterinarians for Nixon"-headed by the vet who cares for his dog Checkers...