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...become worried about his wife and radioed the harbor master. The call was answered instead by Don Whiting, night manager of the restaurant they had left three hours earlier. Whiting launched a search, and at 3:26, the Coast Guard was called in. Soon after dawn, a guardsman spotted Wood's body a mile down current from the yacht and 200 yds. from shore. The empty dinghy, loaded with lifejackets, was not far away, bobbing in the waves...
According to one theory, Wood intended to go off in the dinghy, to be alone and breathe the brisk Pacific night. Whiting spent the night after the accident aboard the Splendour and struck upon an alternative theory: maybe Wood, kept awake by the sound of Valiant banging against the hull in the breeze, slipped overboard while trying to move the dinghy to the yacht's leeward side...
...Wood's death was touched by sad irony. She and Wagner were married on a boat off Catalina. But for Wood, the good life at sea must have held some menace. "I'm frightened to death of the water," she said in a recent interview. "I can swim a little bit, but I'm afraid of water that is dark...
DIED. Natalie Wood, 43, radiant movie actress who appeared in 45 films and won three Academy Award nominations; of accidental drowning; off Santa Catalina Island, Calif, (see NATION...
...Japanese art of wood-block prints flourished in the late 18th century when masters like Kitagawa Utamaro illustrated kyoka, a form of comic verse. In A Chorus of Birds (Metropolitan Museum of Art-Viking; unpaginated; $17.95), the season's most unusual book, Utamaro's animated sparrows and hawks, roosters and owls move through a fused world of nature, art and literature. A further enchantment: the volume is not conventionally bound; the accordion-pleated illustrations open into a 30-ft. frieze...