Thursday, December 5, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Gordon Langley Hall
He turned she plans to wed Negro butler
CHARLESTON, S.C. (UPI) — British aristocrat Gordon Langley Hall, adopted son of Dam Margaret Rutherford who has had his sex changed by surgery and is now named "Dawn Pepita," plans to become the wife of his Negro butler.
Plans were revealed for the marriage of the 39-year-old Miss Hall, biographer of Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Princess Margaret and Lady Bird Johnson, to John Paul Simmons. 30.
"I don't know what he and that boy will do."
"It's all very mysterious," said Herman Schindler, a close friend of Hall since he came to Charleston 10 years ago.
The wedding of Miss Hall and the former garage mechanic who is one of 11 children of a retired Charleston shipyard worker, was to take place Oct.27 in a Negro church here.
The marriage was delayed until Dec. 1 and then cancelled because of bomb threats telephoned to the Charleston church. The couple
now plan to be married next year in England.
But Miss Hall said she already is the common law wife of her former butler and chauffeur.
Hall said he entered Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore in October for an operation to change his sex. He earlier had taken therapy with female hormones. Hospital officials confirmed Hall had such an operation, performed on "transsexuals."
At her country cottage in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, Dam Margaret Rutherford said she was pleased with the marriage.
Hall, a native of Heathfield, England, came to the United States in 1952, working for various newspapers and as a free lance journalist and authored several novels and morality plays.
As Gordon Langley Hall, Dawn Pepita wrote "Lady Bird and her Daughters." Other works include "Princess Margaret," "The Gypsy Contessa," "Mr. Jefferson's Ladies," "The Sawdust Trail" and "Golden Boats from Burma."
Rv LEON DANIEL
TOKYO (UPI) - Darryl F. Zanuck wears huge sunglasses with lenses so dark it is difficult to tell what he is thinking back there behind them.
The president of 20th Century Fox was in Japan to promote a movie called "Tora! Tora! Tora!" which is about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
A Japanese newsman asked Zanuck at a news conference why he was wearing a formal U.S. Army dress uniform. Zanuck glanced down at his white jacket and the ribbons on his chest and told the reporter the jacket was a gift from the National Reserve Officers Association of the United States.
Zanuck said the association gave him the jacket because its members, reserve officers from all branches of the U.S. armed forces, thought so highly of his war movie "The Longest Day."
Zanuck said the ribbons were
personal decorations which had been awarded to him.
"Tora" is the Japanese word for tiger and was the code signal in the Pearl Harbor attack.
Someone asked Zanuck how much the movie would cost. Zanuck nodded at Elmo Williams, the producer.
"Well, it's budgeted for $22 million," said Williams.
Zanuck said that would make it the fourth most expensive movie ever made.
Zanuck said achieving historical accuracy in the script was no problem because "The Pearl Harbor attack is one of the best documented incidents of all time."
Zanuck said he would stay in Japan about 10 days while the shooting for the movie begins. He said it would take about a year to complete the film.
He said clear records on the attack exist in the United States and Japan and that there is no disagreement on basic facts.
Tame pussycat
The Jayhawks have tamed cats in their last two games—K-State's Wildcats and Missouri's Tigers—and now are preparing to battle a third feline foe. Although Pepper Rodgers and Co. might hope the Penn State Nittany Lions are as docile as this tabby, they are gearing for a scrap New Year's night.
Installment plan costly
If you are a typical wage earner who buys things on credit, you may work four or five years of your life just to pay interest fees, writes a leading consumer authority in the current Kansas Business Review, published by the Center for Regional Studies at the University of Kansas.
During-the past ten years, installment debts have jumped 130 per cent versus a 59 per cent rise in disposable income, says Sidney Margolius, former member of the president's Consumer Advisory Council. He says American families buy more goods on credit and pay higher finance rates and take longer to pay.
Margolius estimated that a typical installment-buying moderate income family might waste a dollar of every eight dollars—close to $1,000 of its income a year through paying higher finance charges than it needs to.
Besides easy credit, other consumer problems arise from the price of food in general and the increase in new products, Margolius says. Mass production of items such as household appliances has sacrificed durability
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installment obligations can effect the economic cycle.
and ease of repair, thus causing consumer problems.
The way he sees it, how a consumer spends his money has significance beyond the effect on the individual family. The annual waste by families is 20-25 times the entire amount spent on the War on Poverty. Also, the amount of future income committed to
There is hope, Margolius believes, in the current interest in consumer legislation and education and in the fact that increasing numbers of business and banking leaders have become convinced that reasonable ground rules are necessary.