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Final Tenacity. For all this, The Wild Bunch is Sam Peckinpah's triumph. His hard-edged elegies for the West come from a life spent absorbing its folkways. Born into a California pioneer family, Peckinpah is a hard liver who has found some of his script ideas by doing research in barrooms and bordellos. Because he is scrappy and unwilling to compromise, he has spent a good deal of his professional time warring with the money men in the front office, who truncated Major Dundee and fired him from The Cincinnati Kid after three days of shooting. "You have...
Died. Leo Gorcey, 52, pugnacious leader of the "Dead End Kids" and the "Bowery Boys," whose rasping voice delighted generations of film buffs; of a liver ailment; in Oakland, Calif...
Died. Allan Lockheed, 80, aviation pioneer and co-founder of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (TIME, May 30); of liver cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. A onetime barnstormer, Lockheed began designing planes in 1911. His company was a pioneer in the use of radical streamlining and molded plywood wings and fuselages. When Lockheed left the company in 1929, he had already made his place in aviation history with the Lockheed Vega, a swift, dependable monoplane that was favored by such adventurers as Wiley Post, Frank Hawks and Amelia Earhart...
...LIVER. If a woman has had pregnancies marked by either jaundice or pruritus (diffuse itching), she should not go on the Pill, suggests Dr. Robert A. Hartley of Baltimore. Both these conditions result from impaired liver function, and the Pill is likely to reproduce the effects of pregnancy. Some gynecologists, however, believe the Pill is safe if the woman has had infectious hepatitis and has fully recovered from her jaundice...
...book ends on the morning of July 2, 1961, when Hemingway killed himself with a shotgun. He was exhausted at the time and had been under treatment for erratic blood pressure, liver ailments and acute melancholia. But, Baker implies, the tragic themes of Hemingway's writing were not contradicted but confirmed by that final act and by Hemingway's entire personal history...