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Smith & Keynes. Galbraith's defenders pooh-pooh much of the criticism as little more than naked envy. "His tremendous vogue is very annoying to many university economists," observes the University of California's (La Jolla) Seymour Harris, a onetime Harvard colleague. "They reason that anyone with that kind of rapprochement with the general public just has to be a lousy economist. It's not true. He's the most-read economist of all time. Not even Adam Smith has been read as much." Galbraith, adds Economist James Warburg, "is the most outstanding explorer of economics since Keynes." There are those...
Died. Max Miller, 68, author of I Cover the Waterfront and 26 other books; following two strokes; in La Jolla, Calif. The success of Waterfront, a collection of vignettes drawn from assignments as a San Diego reporter, enabled Miller to give up newspapering, but he always retained a feel for the short take and the simple truth-notably with his boyhood adventures in 1933's The Beginning of a Mortal...
Married. James Kavanaugh, 38, dis illusioned Roman Catholic, ex-priest anc author (A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church); and Patricia Waiden, 35, a San Diego nurse; in an Episcopal ceremony; in La Jolla, Calif...
Died. Helen Palmer Geisel, 69, wife of "Dr. Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books...
...committing oneself to Christ and Christian values but standing apart from any specific church. Both ex-priests intend to follow an independent path. Kavanaugh, who has technically been on leave from his diocese, will continue to serve as a marriage counselor at the nonsectarian Human Resources Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Davis is now a $16,000-a-year Visiting Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alberta in Canada...