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Died. Charles Bernard Nordhoff, 60, coauthor, with James Norman Hall,* 59, of Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and other South Seas adventure novels; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Nordhoff & Hall met a few weeks after World War I, formed a writing partnership, later moved to Tahiti-where Nordhoff married a native, by whom he had six children before their divorce...
Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare), who looks like a bald Irish politician, has been puttering at watercolors for 20 years, but privily. He first displayed his stuff in a Greenwich Village bar, more recently in Santa Barbara, Calif., in London and at Yale...
...Barbara Stanwyck found the world almost too much with her. At a London premiere she got separated from handsome husband Robert Taylor by a mob of worshipful women. Police had to rescue the pair, ride horses through the crowd to make way. Miss Stanwyck fainted. Taylor got a black eye. "It was the first time since our marriage," said Miss Stanwyck, "that Robert and I have been parted." Miss Stanwyck was doubling as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, which sometimes ran her observations on Page One. Sample: "The British love to tell you how awful things...
...shots in 40 games. In front of Durnan is Les Canadiens' "bachelor defense"-rocklike Emile ("Butch") Bouchard, 26, an offseason beekeeper, and fiery Irishman Kenny Reardon, 25. Bachelor Bouchard plans to marry at season's end. Bachelor Reardon is the confessed favorite player of figure-skating champion Barbara Ann Scott...
...Women's doubles: Miss Hart and Barbara Scofield, a pert little University of Miami (Fla.) girl with freckles and pigtails, who pouts when she misses, pirouettes when she scores, and almost clouts the cover off the ball...