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SEEKING DIVORCE. David Merrick, 71, hit-making Broadway producer, from Karen Prunczik, 26, former tap dancer in his blockbuster 42nd Street and his fourth wife; after nine months of marriage; in New York City. Merrick also filed a petition revealing what had been strenuously denied: that he suffered a stroke 2½ months ago and has not yet recovered his power of speech; he is seeking a conservator to protect his interests...
DIED. Turner Catledge, 82, newspaper reporter and editor who was managing editor and then executive editor of the New York Times from 1951 to 1968; of complications following a stroke; in New Orleans. A courtly Mississippian hired by the Times after impressing Herbert Hoover with his 1927 reporting on devastating Southern floods, Catledge was known for his scrupulous fairness. During his tenure, he increased the Times's national and foreign coverage and pressed for shortened sentences and sharpened stories. In his most debated decision, he approved publication of a report on a planned invasion of Cuba ten days before...
Reischnuer also suffered a stroke two years ago and was in poor health for several months afterward...
...Harper quickly points out that's it been more than just the stroke of her magic Wand that has brought her squad out of the depths of despair and into today's championship game. Sure, the Big Green machine caught a few teams by surprise early in the season, had the fortune to meet pre-season Ivy favorite Penn on neutral turf, and did defeat three Ivy foes by a total of three goals. But, as Harper says, the Dartmouth squad "has played consistently all year. And once the girls saw that they could win, they just started playing better...
Adjusting to a change in stroke and some earlier problems with a high cadence wasn't too much of an effort for the lightweights, whose victory was their last race before the Sprints...