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18 Part l-Mon, sept 1979 Eoa Angeles Stmes Iran Clergyman Who Once Led Opposition Dies Mr' I -r- 1 Inventor Worked on A-Device but Didn't Know It Late in World War government officials approached Richard R. Bow er and asked him to develop a release mechanism for an object that was so secret they couldn't tell him what it was. All they would give Bower to work with were the dimensions of the mysterious object Bower, who then headed United Engineering and Manufacturing, Inc. in the East quickly developed the mechanism. But it was not until after the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima that Bower learned it was his device that had released the bomb.

Bower died of a heart attack Tuesday in Sherman Oaks, where he had lived while doing consulting work for major corporations. He was 83. The son of a Vienna factory owner, Bower was the holder of 231 U.S. patents and had headed the Remington Rand scientific team that developed Univac, one of the world's first marketable computers. Doris Kenyon and Valentino in "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1924).

Doris Kenyon Sills Dies; Known On and Off Screen TEHRAN, Iran-The Ayatollah Mahmoud Taleghani, the most important political figure among the Iranian clergy before the overthrow of the shah, died today at the age of 68, the state radio announced. Taleghani was the Shia Moslem religious leader in Tehran and was in the forefront of the opposition to shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavt He was imprisoned for 10 years. Tha Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomaini, who led the Iranian revolution from exile, returned to Iran in February and leads the world's Shia Moslems from his headquarters in Qom. In the first months after the fall of the shah's government, moderate and leftist foes of Khomaim's conservative policies rallied around Taleghani In April, militiamen loyal to Khomaini abducted two of Taleghani's sons and a daughter-in-law, and Taleghani went into seclusion to protest the kidnaping. Taleghani emerged from hiding after four days, appealed to his supporters to cease their demonstrations and met with Khomaini in Qom.

Afterward, Taleghani expressed his support of Khomaini and assumed a low profile. Collaborator ot P. G. Wodehouse Fran TlniM Whs SorvtcM LONDON-Guy Reginald Bolton, an early librettist for Jerome Kern and a lifelong collaborator of P. G.

Wodehouse, has died at his home near here. He was 94. The author of more than 50 plays-many of which he described as "midget musicals musicals without the music" he last worked with Wodehouse in 1955 on "Come On Jeeves," a play which centered around the butler character Wodehouse turned into a household word. Bolton was already a successful dramatist in 1915 when Kern introduced him to Wodehouse. In the 40 years that followed they collaborated on such hits as "Sitting Pretty," "Anything Goes," and "Oh Boy" which cost $30,000 to produce in 1917 and returned a profit of $181,000.

"Very Good Eddie," which he wrote in 1915 was revived in New York in 1975 as was "Leave It to Jane," written in 1917 and brought back in 1959. Bolton and Wodehouse coauthored 15 plays and one screenplay, "Bring on the Girls." Bolton's single screen credits included "Words and Music" and "Weekend at the Waldorf." fi Richard R. Bower Roy E. Larsenr Time, Inc. Chief Life Publisher Also Started March of Time iMCllHtTtwThim Roy E.

Larsen, who served as president of Time, Inc. for 21 years and created the March of Time radio and film programs, died Sunday morning at his home in Fairfield, Conn. He was 80. Vice chairman of Time, Inc. until his retirement in April, he had worked for the company since it was founded 57 years ago.

As the first publisher of Life Magazine, he with Time founders Henry S. Luce and Briton Hadden was considered one of the three most influential men in the publishing empire's history. He was hired in 1922 as circulation manager at $40 a week. Under his di- OBITUARIES rection, the magazine's circulation soared from 25,000 for the first issue in March, 1923 to about 200,000 in 1928. In 1924, Larsen sought to extend the magazine's success to radio.

Larsen and Hadden initiated a program called Time: The Pop Question Game on WJZ, in New York. Hadden asked questions based on the pages of Time, and Larsen would strike a chime after 10 seconds elapsed. The chime later became the famous NBC signature. The show evolved into the March of Time, which first aired on CBS in 1931. Three years later Fox Movietone news, proposed that the radio program be converted into motion pictures.

Narrated by Westbrook Van Voor-his, who popularized the phrase "Tune Marches On," the film series ran from 1935 to 1951. Each month as many as 20 million people In 1937, then 7-year-old Shirley Temple presented Larsen a social Academy Award for the newsreel. As Life's publisher, Larsen sold an issue containing childbirth pictures to a Bronx assistant district who charged him with selling an obscene publication. Larsen was acquitted. Larsen held the post of Life publisher until 1946.

He also became president of Time, Inc. In 1939, succeeding Luce. Larsen remained Luce's deputy and second-in-command until 1960. Luce died in 1967 and in 1969 Larsen became vice chairman of the board. Doris Kenyon Sills, in movies a leading lady to Rudolph Valentino, Ronald Colman and William Powell and in life the wife of some of this country's most successful men, is dead.

She died Sept 1 at her Beverly Hills home and would have been 82 Wednesday. Born Doris Kenyon, she made her first film "A Girl's Folly" (1917) with the old World Film Co. in Ft Lee, N.J. One of her early and best-remembered successes was opposite Valentino in "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1924). She was at Paramount for that studio's first dramatic, all-talking picture "Interference" with Powell (1928) which followed "The Thief of Paradise" with Colman (1925).

She then appeared in a series of films with George Arliss "Alexander Hamilton," (1931), "Voltaire," (1933) and "Whom the Gods Destroy" (1934). Another was with John Barrymore in "Counselor at Law" (1933). Her 50-picture career ended in 1939, with a brief appearance in "Man in the Iron Mask" but she continued to accept a few television roles. Indeed, friends related last week, as recently as 1978 she appeared at an audition and, without identifying herself to the casting director, was given a role as an elderly woman holding an infant in a McDonald's hamburger commercial. Her personal life was no less colorful than her professional one.

Married in 1926 to Milton Sills (described by Times retired film critic Philip K. Scheuer as "the then John Wayne of movies a man who made rugged, he-man she was widowed in 1930. She married Arthur Hopkins, a wealthy New York real estate broker in 1933 but obtained a divorce from him the next year, claiming incompatibility. In 1938 she wed Albert D. Lasker, owner of Lord Thomas, one of the richest advertising agencies in the world which in 1942 was merged with Foote, Cone Belding.

They divorced in 1939. Her fourth and last husband was Bronislaw Mlynarski, son of the Pol- HINDENBURG WAS LANDING Frank Berend Career Spanned Lindbergh Fetes Nationally Known Fund -Raiser Dies In 1927, returning from France after his epic solo flight to Paris, Charles A. Lindbergh was honored at a celebrity-packed dinner in New York City. The man who arranged the dinner was Frank Berend. On May 20, 1977, there was a memorial dinner in Los Angeles to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the famed aviator's transatlantic flight.

The man who arranged that dinner was Frank Berend. The two events give some idea of the length and range of Berend's career as one of the nation's best known professional fund-raisers. Berend died Sept. 1 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, where he had lived for several years. He was 81.

Berend entered the fund-raising field shortly after his graduation from Columbia University in 1919. His primary focus was in special event fund-raisers for charities. Over the years he created and directed such annual events as the Whitney M. Young Jr. Memorial Award of the Los Angeles Urban League, the Jack Benny Memorial Award of the March of Dimes and the USO Distinguished American Award.

Originally based in New York, his firm of Frank H. Berend Associates opened a West Coast office here in 1971. Berend is survived by his daughter Joan Morse. Memorial services were held Wednesday. Jerry Belcher The Timti United States illegally in 1923 by jumping ship.

He eventually obtained a job with an oil company in Lakehurst. During World War I Hoff had been a helmsman or pilot aboard German dirigibles and flew five bombing raids over England. But during World War II he and his wife and five American-born children were deported to Germany. He returned to this country in 1951 and became an American citizen in 1953. He had retired to San Jose where funeral services were held Thursday.

70 Motion Pictures Jones' Thundering Herd teams that won 30 of 32 games in which Rosenberg played. He twice (1932-33) was named an All-American. Cotton Warburton, AU-American quarterback on the 1932-33 team remembered Rosenberg as one of the biggest (205 pounds) and fastest men on the team. "And not just fast but tough. He-played with broken cheekbones, sprains and just about anything else.

When he'd knock guys down they stayed down." Warburton also went into film work. Now a retired film editor, an Oscar for "Mary Poppins" rests on his mantel. Rosenberg's interest in motion1 pictures began when he did odd jobs at various Hollywood studios to earn spending money during the summer. His first job was at $40 a week as a second assistant director at 20th Century-Fox. Returning from Navy service after World War II, he bought "Johnny Stool Pigeon" and was assigned production rights by Universal.

The film costarred Howard Duff, Shelley Winters and Dan Duryea. He followed that with "Winchester 73" which also featured then newcomers Rock Hudson and Tony Curtis. The other 68 films followed those early successes. He leaves his wife, Victoria Ann, two sons, Tony Rosenberg and Howard M. Lang, two daughters, Mrs.

Miles Benickes and Mrs. John Vaesen and seven grandchildren. Burt A. Folkart He had studied mathematics under Albert Einstein at the University of Vienna and held doctorates in mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and physics from the universities of Zurich, Heidelberg and Vienna. Considered a pioneer in the field of automation, he developed mass production facilities for such companies as International Telephone and Telegraph, Raytheon, the Leach Corp.

and Rheem Manufacturing Co. "If one company could produce 500 units of some product an hour," said Bower's wife and only survivor, Joanne, "my husband would develop a machine that could produce 1,000." Bower found nothing too trivial for his inventive genius, his wife said. "Once in Saks Fifth Ave. he saw a lady with strings on her purse which she was using to hold her gloves," Mrs. Bower said.

"My husband went to work and invented a special purse chain a glove holder-and sold it to Helena Rubenstein. It made him a millionaire." Mrs. Bower recalled that her husband once told her he almost quit college while studying mathematics under Einstein. She quoted her husband as saying: "I wrote home to my father and said, 'Daddy, I have to quit. This man (Einstein) makes me stand at the blackboard and do a problem over and over again if even a line I draw is not perfect.

He makes big red marks on my papers if everything is not just But later, Mrs. Bower said, her husband came to love and revere Einstein. When Einstein was teaching at Princeton, Bower and the professor's other students who were in the United States would stage an annual dinner for him at some plush New York hotel. "All Einstein's former students would show up wearing tuxedos. But Einstein himself would appear wearing baggy trousers, an old sweater and smoking his nasty pipe." Bower came to the United States in the middle 1930s.

He founded United Engineering and Manufacturing' in 1938 and sold it to General Electric in 1950. He came to California in 1959. Bower was buried Saturday at Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, Hollywood Hills. -Dick West Rose Franzblau, Advice Columnist NEW YORK (i9-Rose N. Franzblau, a psychologist, advice columnist and theatrical financier, has died of cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital.

She was 77 Mrs. Franzblau's syndicated column "Human Relations," appeared in newspapers across the country from 1951 to 1976. The question-and-an-swer column dealt with subjects such as sex, marriage and parenthood. One of her proudest accomplishments was organizing a series of lectures for prisoners on Rikers Island. Eleanor Roosevelt spoke at one of them.

With her husband, Abraham, she was a financial backer of more than 100 Broadway plays including "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum," and "Fiddler on the Roof." She also was the coauthor of seven books, including "The Middle Generation," and "The Way It Is Under 20." Along with her husband, she wrote "A Sane and Happy Life." Mrs. Franzblau, who died Sept 2, is survived by her husband and two children. Soviet Military Head Frwn Rtutfft MOSCOW-Gen. Alexei Radziev-sky, former commander of the Frunze Military Academy, the Soviet Union's' equivalent of West Point, has died, Izvestia reported last Monday. He was 68.

Radzievsky, a tank specialist, headed the Soviet Armored Forces and held a series of posts before spending eight years as chief of the Moscow academy. Found Fame in Both Football, Film Paccinnc 0ldest Cardinal; Original Key: ratings. Kop; Back Business Leadc Leader Doris Kenyon Sills in 1978. ish composer and pianist Artur Rubinstein's brother-in-law. After her film work ended she resumed a singing career she had started to pursue as a girl but then abandoned that to live in semiretirement in Beverly Hills.

Over the years her fame took shape in odd ways. In 1924 Mrs. Alma Kappelhoff, an ardent Kenyon fan, named her daughter for the star. Doris Kappelhoff matured to become Doris Day who went on to a film and singing career of her own. In 1977 Miss Kenyon appeared at the 50th anniversary celebration of talking pictures held at the KTLA Television Studios in Hollywood which were the Warner Bros.

Studios when "The Jazz Singer" with Al Jol-son was made there. Her last appearance as an actress was a bit with Walter Brennan in "The Tycoon," a 1964 television series. Services were held Thursday at Forest Lawn's Church of the Recessional in Glendale. Only four grandchildren survive. stone Health a nonprofit drop-in center in Brentwood which offered counseling.

In Los Angeles of cancer. William Van Dusen, 64, an insurance agent who helped pioneer the development of driver education programs for the state's high schools. In Sherman Oaks. Everett F. Holladay, 60, retired police chief of Monterey Park who in, 1970 unsuccessfully opposed Los Angeles County Sheriff Peter Pitchess for election.

In Columbia, where he was underdoing treatment for cancer. Loretta Wong, 34, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. King Yan Wu, owners of Madame Wu's restaurant. In Los Angeles of cancer.

Percival Borde, 56, leading exponent of black concert dance who toured with his wife, Pearl Primus, and was seen on television and in the Broadway show "Mister Johnson." In New York of a heart attack. Timothy W. Brown, 45, a biologist who specialized in vertebrates and was named Cal Poly Pomona's outstanding teacher of the year in 1975. On Santa Cruz Island of a heart attack while on a field trip. Arthur S.

DeMoss, 53, who in 1959 was the first to offer health insurance at lower rates if purchased directly through the mail. Its popularity led, in 1967, to the establishment of National Liberty which now owns five life insurance firms. In Bryn Mawr, of a heart attack. Sptcltl to SAN JOSE-On May 6, 1937, Emil Hoff was waiting to refuel the dirigible Hindenburg at Lakehurst, N.J. He later described the explosion that followed "like an oldtime match you strike on your pants all of a sudden, phhht and she laid down almost on me, pretty near like a lame horse." Hoff, who died Aug.

31 in a nursing home here at age 86, pulled six people to safety before he lost consciousness in the smoke and flames that were to kill 36 persons. He received a medal for bravery from Germany, which owned the airship, even though he had entered the Went on to Produce Aaron Rosenberg "Bounty," the Marlon Brando film nominated for best picture of the year. Other stars he worked with over a 30-year career included James Cag-ney, Gina Lollobrigida, Alan Ladd, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds and Yul Brynner. Born in New York, Rosenberg came to California as a boy. He attended Fairfax High School where he made the all-city football team for four consecutive years.

He enrolled at USC as a journalism student but won a lasting reputation as a blocking guard on the Howard If USC All -American Aaron Rosenberg spent three years of his life producing thrills for thousands of USC football fans. He then spent the next 46 producing 70 motion pictures. Rosenberg, 67, was buried Wednesday at Hillside Memorial Park before a crowd that included his teammates and his Hollywood associates. He died Sept 1 after a massive stroke. The former Ail-American guard, whose film credits ranged from "Johnny Stool Pigeon" in 1949 to "Mutiny on the Bounty" in 1962, was credited with being the first producer to let a star (James Stewart) defer part of his salary in exchange for participation in a film's profit Stewart's financial harvest from "Winchester 73" in 1950 was such that other stars henceforth were delighted to accept similar arrangements.

Rosenberg was the first to produce a film in which a black played something beyond a purely black role (Sidney Poitier in "Red Ball Express" in 1952) and the last to have Marilyn Monroe before a camera Over, Darling" in 1963 which was completed by Doris Day after Miss Monroe's death). Between were pictures with Frank Sinatra Rome," "The Detective," "Lady in By the time Rosenberg was honored for his sports deeds and inducted into the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame in 1965, his film credits included "Gunsmoke," "The Glenn Miller Story," "To Hell and Back," "Never Steal Anything Small," and "Thunder Bay." And, of course, Cardinal Alberto Di Jorio, 95, oldest member of the College of Cardinals who was elevated by Pope John XXIII in 1958 and served in various administrative posts. In Vatican City where he had retired. Sir Felix Aylmer, 90, oldest of Britain's knights of the theater world. His films included "Quo Vadis" and "Victoria the Great." In Cobham, England.

Herbert Trafton, 86, one of the original Keystone Kops in the Mack Sennett silent films. In San Diego. Berkeley G. Burrell, 60, president of the National Business League, an organization of black businessmen founded in 1900 by Booker T. Washington.

He served as a minority adviser for six Presidents, starting with Dwight D. Eisenhower. In Washington of a heart attack. Ahmed El-SenouMi, 71, a psychologist who founded the Emotional L(Doc) Merman, Production Manager Lewis (Doc) Merman, motion picture production manager for nearly 40 years died Friday, his 79th birthday. His career began in 1934 at Universal.

He moved to Pine-Thomas, Samuel Goldwyn (where he worked on "Porgy and and finally to 20th Century-Fox where he was involved with dozens of the company's top pictures before retiring in 1972..