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Died. Colonel Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Sr., 73, muscular Christian, father of the wartime ambassador to the governments in exile; following a cerebral hemorrhage; in Syosset, N.Y. He founded the Drexel Biddle Bible Classes in 1907 (their curriculum of fighting-&-praying ultimately attracted 200,000 members), taught jujitsu and dirty fighting to Marines in both World Wars...
...taught me how to shoot a sexy dame singing a song and stuff like that." Welles has spent the past six months touring Italy, mostly vacationing. But he tossed off Cagliostro, a film biography of the great 18th Century charlatan, in between an audience with the Pope, an interview with Togliatti, and writing occasional pieces for the New York Post. "I've never seen what I wrote in print," he says. "It was like writing in sand...
...swarms of ragged urchins clawing over the piled-up refuse for scraps of coal or tin or paper that could possibly be sold. In time he made friends with them and, while awaiting the arrival of fresh loads of garbage, told them Bible stories and taught them a few hymns. After a while he moved into a packing case at the dump and began to build his church. When TIME told his story, he figured that $100 would just about complete...
...Gromyko had never got across to Americans, nor they to him, apparently. He was the prototype of the "new man" that Lenin's revolution had promised. The armor-plating was part of the pattern. If his residence in the U.S. had taught him anything different from what his Communist ideology required him to believe, that was, and for safety's sake would remain, his secret...
Died. Olga Samaroff Stokowski, 65, plump, hearty, onetime concert pianist, and Texas-born first wife of Conductor Leopold Stokowski; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Christened Lucy Hickenlooper,* she adopted the Russian name as more appropriate to an artistic career, for 50-odd years taught bankers and clubwomen how to listen to music, and budding pianists how to play...