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...Americans were dead. Embassy Stenographer Barbara Robbins, 21, who had come to Saigon from Denver six months before, died at her desk, a ballpoint pen still clutched in her hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed...
Died. Gail Neal, 29, California tennis-club attendant; of a .45-cal. bullet wound in the head, shortly after which her estranged husband, Actor Tom Neal, 51, the man who hospitalized Franchot Tone ("I was on him like a cat") in their 1951 brawl over Actress Barbara Payton, was booked on suspicion of murder; in Palm Springs...
...week New York newspaper strike of 1963 when Gallery Owner Robert Graham was at a loss for a way to advertise. To signal shows, he hit on having each artist design his own flag. His idea was so successful that other galleries followed suit, and Graham, along with Barbara Kulicke, wife of a New York painter and framemaker, founded the Betsy Ross Flag & Banner Co. Before long, 35 artists had made nylon flags to fly outdoors and felt banners to hang indoors like tapestries. So far, shows of their work have traveled to 30 U.S. museums and galleries. Like graphics...
Harm's Way opens at a Pearl Harbor naval officers' dance on the evening of Dec. 6, 1941. While boozy Commander Kirk Douglas is at sea, his wife (Barbara Bouchet) is at play, behaving like a one-woman luau. She shakes her hips at an Air Force major, lures him away for a nude swim, wakes up on the beach next morning in bleary panic as enemy planes strafe the sand and the holocaust at Pearl Harbor begins...
...Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...