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...Woodland Hills Methodist Church near Los Angeles, the Rev. William E. Steel has held dialogue sermons once a month for two years. Most of his congregation likes the idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...
...effect the medium imposed a message and Dylan, newly cleansed by the hospital wards and the suburban woodland breeze, was ideally prepared to provide...
Died. Vance ("Pinto") Colvig, 75, the voice of Goofy, Pluto and a host of other Disney cartoon characters; of pneumonia; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Died. Albertina Rasch, 76, ballerina, choreographer and wife of Composer Dmitri Tiomkin; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Trained in Vienna's Imperial Theater, a performer in New York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week...
...most of his life in brash discord with the Yankee landowning gentry. But before he dies, Con has a vision of personal revenge and future glory for his daughter Sara: "She'll live in a Yankee mansion, as big as a castle, on a grand estate of stately woodland...