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Died. Hugh John Lofting, 61, English born storyteller whose Dr. Doolittle series (about a kind country doctor and his talkative animal friends) has entertained children for nearly three decades; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Lion Feuchtwanger is a professional hand at this and a capable one. Writing in pre-Hitler Germany, he used medieval material in The Ugly Duchess, 18th Century Germany in Power (his first U.S. success), 1st Century Rome in his Josephus trilogy. He has worked on Proud Destiny in Santa Monica, where he settled after fleeing Europe in 1940, and the novel smells faintly of the Hollywood atmosphere in which it was composed. The period sets are painstaking, the main characters are photogenic. With no strain on his attention, the reader can savor from one large dish a thousand tidbits...
Sliced about the face: Roddy McDowall, 18, gangly cinemactor; in a head-on highway collision, near Santa Monica Beach...
...tennis player (rather than a baseball player), it has been his whole life. First he became champion of San Bernardino's Arrowview Junior High. Then, at 14, he went hunting bigger game, and got his ears pinned back in the first round of a Santa Monica boys' tournament. It was a terrible shock...
...Time for Vacation. With this week's broadcast in London, Gracie will wind up the live half of the series (the Other six shows have been transcribed). For the future, she would like a "long-vacation" (either at her Santa Monica estate or at her Capri villa). But she's reluctant to mention a rest: even Lancashire would take a dim view of anyone lolling nowadays, when all Britain is supposed to be working harder...