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On the eve of his 53rd birthday, Sir Laurence Olivier got a present of sorts from his wife, Actress Vivien Leigh, 46, after almost 20 years of marriage that often found them poles apart. Currently an ocean apart, Olivier, starring in the London hit Rhinoceros, and Vivien, starring on Broadway in Duel of Angels, have agreed to part for keeps. The stiff-upper-lipped announcement came from Vivien: "Lady Olivier wishes to say that Sir Laurence has asked for a divorce in order to marry Miss Joan Plowright. She will naturally do whatever he wishes." Saucer-eyed British Actress Plowright, 28, was Olivier's co-player on Broadway last year in The Entertainer. Sir Laurence's statement: "It is too private an affair to discuss just now. I must think."
Five weeks after an assassin fired two bullets into his head at point-blank range, South Africa's Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd left the hospital in "excellent" health.
The will of the late Philanthropist John D. Rockefeller Jr. was filed in Manhattan and proved to run a lengthy 59 pages, with three codicils appended, with surprisingly little in it for the U.S. Treasury. After giving away almost half a billion dollars in his lifetime, John D. Jr. left an estate of about $150 million in securities, real estate and works of art. To his widow Martha, his second wife, Rockefeller gave half his residual estate, untaxable as a marital deduction; Martha gets the fortune in trust, can dispose of the principal in her own will as she pleases. The other half of the residual estate goes to the charitable Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Inc.
The unchallenged Pied Piper of Harlem, New York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, has often damned assorted Southern whites from his Northern bailiwick, but last week, mounting a Richmond, Va. rostrum, he turned his cannon toward the North and fired: "The Northern 'liberal' is trying to hold on. But the Negro leader makes no distinction any longer between the North and the South. He sees increasing hypocrisy in the former and increasing honesty in the latter."