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BELLA ABZUG, 50, Democrat, N.Y., is a sort of political Thelma Ritter, armed with a floppy hat and a vitriolic tongue, who makes strident music wherever she goes. Too formidable to be discounted as foolish, she won a tough campaign on Manhattan's Lower East Side. She led the opening attack on the seniority system in the 92nd, and can be counted on to push -hard-for women's rights legislation...
...Died. Thelma, Lady Furness, 65, one of the "Magical Morgans," who with her identical twin Gloria captivated international society of the '20s and '30s; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Though no kin to the banking Morgans, they might just as well have been. Blessed with beauty and brains, Gloria became Gloria Vanderbilt, while Thelma married British Shipping Magnate Lord Furness. In 1934 she captured the heart of young Edward, Prince of Wales, whom she later introduced to a friend named Wallis Simpson with the remark: "Well, dear, look after him for me while I'm away...
Monday, Aug. 25 (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.): A HOLE IN THE HEAD, with Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eleanor Parker, Eddie Hodges and Thelma Ritter...
...Died. Thelma Ritter, 63, Brooklyn-born character actress; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. Her voice was purest Greenpoint gravel and her visage was forever screwed into the city dweller's skeptical query: "Who ya' tryin' to kid, buster?" She began her career, as she once put it, on the road as "an obnoxious child actress-the poor man's Cornelia. Otis Skinner." She married in 1927 and settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus...
...cities-the crippled Oklahoma soldier (Beau Bridges). The Incident thus plausibly proposes the desiccating, depersonalizing pressure of urban life itself as the probable villain. And Director Larry Peerce moves far beyond his 1964 One Potato, Two Potato in welding his cast of adept Hollywood second-string players (among them, Thelma Ritter, Jack Gilford, Jan Sterling and Ruby Dee) into a concerted exposition of this plausibility...