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...DIED. ARTHUR CANTOR, 81, Broadway producer whose wife thought he was "nuts" for investing $2,000 in 1957 in a show called The Music Man and who championed the comic playwrights Paddy Chayefsky and Herb Gardner; in Manhattan. Cantor, a publicist before becoming a producer, hoisted signs for his marquees as humorous as the plays they pushed. One read, "'I laughed my head off'--Marie Antoinette...
DIED. BEATRICE STRAIGHT, 86, spirited performer who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her 1977 role in Network as the scorned wife of William Holden; in Los Angeles. She also won a Tony in 1953 for playing Elizabeth Proctor in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, a role she originated...
...Harvard's other event winners on the day were junior Aaron Snead in the pole vault (4.26 meters), senior Arthur Fergusson in the triple jump (13.94 meters), junior Benton Bodamer in the 400-meter hurdles (57.08 seconds), and sophomore Chris Antunes...
...addition to the papers, Larry Kramer's brother Arthur, also a Yale graduate, is giving the school $1 million...
...seven-year-old Atlanta boy will probably forget one day what he did to earn the Rev. Arthur Allen Jr.'s ire. But the memory of the punishment that followed will surely live on. Police say three of Allen's flock, heeding the pastor's teaching, held the boy down in the House of Prayer church while a fourth whipped him with a switch. On Feb. 28, when the boy told a teacher he was in pain, she found welts on his body...