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Endless Endless Alexander King "Remarkable personality" Alexander King, 66, Author-Artist, Dies The New York Times News Service NEW YORK -Alexander King, 66, the artist and acid-tongued raconteur, died late yesterday of a heart attack. King became ill at his Manhattan apartment in the early afternoon and was taken to Lenox Hill Hospital. He had appeared earlier in the day on "Today," the television show, to publicize his fifth which published yesterday, "Rich Man, Poor Man, Freud and Fruit." For most of his career, King of a small who was virtually unknown, outside called him "a genius," "a great individualist" and "a remarkable personality." THEN IN 1958, tho. frail and disarmingly gentle author published a book of memoirs, "Mine Enemy Grows Older," and ap- Lila Pomer? 'Specially for Half-Sizes! Crocheted Lace Sparks the Dressy Wool Knit The Shift with the special difference it's custom proportioned for young half sizes in wool knit and banded with crocheted lace for excitement! Just the black, thing sizes for those elegant little evenings, in $35 C-K's Dresses-2nd Floor, also Green Hills through the busiest combed cotton 599 know you'll be wear so you never have to royal, sizes 8-18. Special Event styles from Trim, Permanent-Press Skirts and Slacks for the Mother-to-Be The prettiest ladies-in-waiting love our no-iron skirts and slacks.

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When he drove his cart onto the plywood, Ogleton said, overturn." and caused the vehicle to OGLETON, of 1906 Lathan Court, said he suffered bruises cuts over his entire body and a strained back muscle. In addition, he claimed, he suffered "pain and mental anguish" from his wounds, not to mention the fact that he was kept from making his appointed rounds several days. Named for, defendants in the lawsuit were Metro government and Hot-Mix, a construction company which specializes the resurfacing of streets and installation of utility systems. Hot-Mix had been contracted lay Ogleton's repair the lawsuit holes in said, the but street, had failed to do so. OTHER Circuit Court action yesterday, the widow of a Dickson, man who was killed last January when he fell beneath the wheels of city bus brought a $75,000 lawsuit against Nashville Transit Co.

Mrs. Margaret Knapper Bruce said the death of her husband, 46-year-old James Bruce, was the result of negligence and carelessness on the part of bus driver D. H. Taylor, of 1007 North 16th St. Police said Bruce fell under the rear wheels of the bus while attempting to signal the driver to stop.

The accident occurred Spy Story MOSCOW (P)-A book issued in the United States as "The Penkovskiy Papers," attributed to a spy, was attacked by Tass yesterday as an "example of the stinky concoctions" of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. The Tass agency claimed the CIA produced the book to offset failures and to try to convince Americans of CIA's worth. CIA has not commented on the book. It is being published in New York Friday, but some of its content has become known.

Oleg Penkovskiy was cuted as a spy here in 1963. on Broadway, near its intersection with 12th Avenue. North. Bruce died several hours later General Hospital of several broken bones and severe internal injuries. A retired Army, warrant officer, Bruce father of chief, six children, ranging in age from 8 to 17.

10 years old 10 CASCADE Kales at CASCADE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON STRAIGHT BOURDON HI SKY 86, PROOF CASCADE to DIST CO LOUISVILLE KY We're not sure we can afford any more help like Andy's. THE NASHVILLE TENNESSEAN, Wednesday, Nev. 17, 1965 city involved four freighters in two separate collisions yester- 4 Freighters Collide in Canada QUEBEC (P) Fog and a sian freighter Kosmonaut and river pilot station of Les Es blinding snowstorm of the St. the Spanish freighter coumins in blinding snow. Lawrence River below Quebec Monte Urbasa collided off the storm.

peared on the Jack Paar show. The appearance startled Paar, captivated the audience and turned King into a celebrity. What the artist, book illustrator, magazine editor and playwright did on the program--and on many other later television shows--was provide a witty, tinual outflow of comments on pungent, A fume irreverent and conlife, art, women, sex, psychiatry, celebrities, narcotics addiction just about any other topic that a annoyed him. His peeves were endless. Of the 20th century, he said: "We had our century and we muffed it.

We put Coca bottles in old Vienna. couldn't be sadder." Of marriages, he once observed: "Just because two people have been pulling a wagonload of garbage for 30 years and have acquired the same harness sores, it does not necessarily sanctify their union." ON THE PAST employers, such as the editors of Life Magazine, King said simply: "The worst monsters in the business." King, whose original name was Koenig, born in Vienna 13. 1899. came United States just before World War I with his father, a research chemist, and his mother. He attended public school New York's Lower East Side and began painting while still in his teens.

His first exhibition was in the office of the publisher, Horace Liveright, In the 1930s, King was an editor of the magazine, "Americana." He worked on "Life" and "Stage" magazines. THE AUTHOR'S friends were fond of pointing out that King could talk about almost anything because he had done almost everything. He spoke five languages, eight plays (one of which he recited himself in 1939 to a packed Broadway audience) and had been in a federal narcotics hospital and several jails. He is survived by his widow, Margie, and two sons by a previous marriage, Robin and Mervin. The funeral wil be private.

Pole Flight Last of Kind BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (P)--A globe-girdling Boeing 707, heavily burdened with fuel and instruments, barely cleared the runway here yesterday and headed for the South Pole on what the pilot called "the last trail blazing navigational flight in aviation." The mission took it over the North Pole Monday. The specially equipped plane, overloaded with slightly more than 185,000 pounds of jet fuel, shot down the entire length of the runway at Buenos Aires International Airport before becoming airborne at 1:51 p.m. EST. It will land in Christchurch, New Zealand after flying over the South Pole. THE BUENOS AIRES control tower reported later that the plane had passed the Falkland Islands.

It was due over the South Pole at 9:07 p.m. EST on the estimated 13 hour 22 minute flight to New Zealand. It will then return Honolulu to complete the orbital flight, the first over both poles. Aboard are 45 scientists and observers. A flight plan filed in tina showed the plane would be cruising--on instruments--at an altitude of about 33,000 feet most of the way.

The jet arrived at Buenos Aires more than five hours late and with one passenger fewer than had started out in Honolulu Monday. ROBERT W. PRESCOT, president of Flying Tiger Line, ah- landoned the trip midway. Word reached him in London that his son was killed in a private plane accident. in California while Prescot was on the leg over the North Pole.

The had to make an in sackcanfecalsto hon, Portugal, to complete fueling because the long runway at London airport was under repairs and could not be used. "We simply could not take off with complete fuel load from the shorter runway in London," said Capt. Harrisson Finch of Huntington, N.Y. Finch and Capt. Fred L.

Austin of Woodland Hills, are co-commanders on the flight. Both are 50 years old and Transworld Airline pilots on special leave for the expedition. THE EXPEDITION is named the "Rockwell Polar Flight," after Col. W. F.

Rockwell of Pittsburgh, who helped sponsor it. Rockwell is chairman of Rockwell-Standard and a member of the U.S. Explorers Club. Rockwell. 77, was aboard and described the passage over the North Pole as "really beautiful.

The night was clear and there was bright moonlight" he added. Dr. Serge A. Korff of New York, a scientist from New York Universitv. told reporters in Buenos Aires "research on this flight among other things is part of the program to develop supersonic passenger jetliners.

Opthalmology Head Named Dr. James H. Elliott of Wellesley, has been named associate professor of opthalmology and chief of the division at Vanderbilt University. Chancellor Alexander Heard said the appointment will become effective July 1, 1966. Elliott is currently associated with the Howe Laboratory of Opthalmology at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston, Mass.

A native of Hastings, he received his B.A. from Phillips University and his M.D. at the University of Oklahoma Medical School where he graduated summa. cum laude. day.

One sent the giant Canadian ore carrier Lawrencecliffe Hall to the bottom. Capt. Devona Larosee of the Lawrencecliffe Hall and his crew of 24 took to the lifeboats after their vessel collided with the 6.000-ton freighter Sunek in fog off Ile d'Orleans, 14 miles downstream from Quebec City. All reached shore safely and no injuries were reported by elther ship. The Sunek also 1S Canadian owned.

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