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Died. Richard John ("Rich") Glendon Jr., 38, Columbia University's crew coach since 1926. son of the Naval Academy's famed retired crew coach; of a shotgun wound, declared accidental by a medical examiner; while duck shooting near Chatham, Mass...
...trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows two of the best dramatic actors in the U. S. cinema spreading their talents thickly upon slapstick scenes. Samples: Lionel Barrymore eating a cold duck with indigestive grunts; Alice Brady fluttering in unjustified anticipation when Max Lawrence tells her he is planning to elope...
Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...
Half a mile south of California's San Mateo bridge on which he had been murdered last month (TIME, Nov. 27), kidnapped Brooke Hart's body was found in five feet of water by duck hunters one morning last week. Employes in his father's San Jose department store identified the body, painfully recalled fitting the clothes which the corpse still wore. In San Jose, where gaunt-faced Thomas H. Thurmond and hulking John Holmes had been jailed after confessing to the crime, red-hot resentment took shape as a mob. Asked if he would call...
...More duck sanctuaries throughout...