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Mantovani 'aimed to please middle' Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, the conductor ot stringdrenched harmonies who in the 1950 s became the first musician to sell a million stereophonic records in the United States, died after an illness of several years Saturday night in a nursing home in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, near London He was 74 years old. Mantovani’s arrangements, the epitome of background or mood music, poured out of "easy-listening" radio stations and filled elevators and restaurants to wrap the listener in a silvery, silken cocoon. But they also brought millions into concert halls to see and hear his 40-piece or 50-piece orchestras play such favorites as "Charinaine." the Mantovani theme; "Misty,” "Greensleeves," "Streets of Laredo." "Three o’clock in the Morning" or “Donkey Serenade." Between 1951 and 1966 there were 18 Mantovani recordings that sold 500,000 copies each in this country and his American concert tours covered as many as 60 cities in 72 days, / Although critics and indeed Mantovani himself did not take his pseudo-symphonic style seriously, they hailed his music-making as “a marvel of discipline." Reporting on a pair of soldout 1966 concerts, Robert Sherman wrote in The New York Times that the British conductor had "held court last night at Philharmonic Hall,” conducting with "disarming nonchalance" and a bit of spice with the musical sugar "The hard work, obviously, was done in the rehearsal room." he wrote. With the orchestra in the concert hall, Mantovani "stroked it until it purred.” The popularity of the conductor, once described as “the man who could make a hymn out of a rock number," continued through the 70s. despite the revolution in popular music. "Perhaps 25 percent of the people like the classics and about 25 percent like the Beatles,” Mantovani told an interviewer during the 19605. "I aim to please the 50 percent in the middle.” • Constance Francesca Hilton asserted in court that her father, the late Conrad Hilton, was suffering from “insane delusions” when he left her only SIOO,OOO in his will. But Miss Hilton, the 32-year-old daughter of the hotel tycoon and Zsa Zsa Gabor, has lost her court contest to increase to SSO million her share of an estate estimated at more than SIOO million, it was learned last Friday. Miss Hilton maintained that her father was plagued by delusions stemming from guilt over his having married Miss Gabor in 1942 without obtaining an annulment of his first marriage or a special dispensation from the Roman Catholic Church. But a California Superior Court judge. Jack Swink. noting that Miss Hilton was born in 1947, about two and a half years after her parents had separated, said Hilton’s action appeared, instead, to have been based on logical suspicion concerning parentage. Ralph Nutter, an attorney for the Conrad Hilton charitable foundation, which received the bulk of the estate, said Hilton acknowledged Miss Gabor as his daughter, but “believed his children and grandchildren should work for a living.” • NEW YORK (AP) Actress Eileen Fulton, who plays the scheming Lisa Coleman on the CBS-TV soap opera “As the World Turns,” has become an owner of the New York Stars women’s professional basketball team. “This is a new thing for women to do,” said Miss Fulton, “but it’s time for women to get out and do the things they want to do, things they’re capable of doing without being intimidated.” A team spokesman said the actress, along with taking a financial interest in the team, will help promote women’s basketball.

House Call Insulin-injection site debate

By G. Timothy Johnson, M.D. Dear Dr. Johnson: You commented recently on the importance of the insulin-injection site for blood-sugar control in diabetes. Now, all of a sudden, I have a personal interest in this question. Will you please repeat, and perhaps enlarge on - what you said on this subject before? Walter F., Lexington, Ky. Dear Walter: Several studies in recent months have highlighted the possible importance of choosing the best insulin injection site to achieve relatively stable control of blood-sugar levels. One study, done at the Yale School of Medicine disclosed a wide variability in the amount of insulin absorbed from different injection sites. It was found that short-acting insulin is absorbed at an 86 per cent better rate from the abdomen than from a leg, and at about a 30 per cent better rate from the abdomen than from the arm. As might be expected, bloodsugar levels differened accordingly. depending on injection site, and that can be important for patients who must maintain rather strict control of blood-sugar levels. The authors of the Yale study suggest that at least some patients might be wise to vary their injection sites, within a given anatomic area, rather than changing injection sites among widely different areas of the body Other studies indicate that.

when insulin is injected into the arm or leg, absorption can be greatly increased by exercising the limb. Again, this could become important in some patients’ blood-control efforts. Dear Dr. Johnson: I recently read that people who suffer from milk intolerance should take aspirin before drinking milk. This strikes me as an odd suggestion. Is there any basis for it? - Martin P., Mount Vernon, N. Y. Dear Martin: The time-

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Test your bridge play

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BETTE MIDLER: Thorny past

Bette Midler breaks her rule of never talking about her unhappy childhood in Hawaii when she appears on Barbara Walters’ ABC-TV special Tuesday night (10 pm, Channels 6 and 38 locally). “I always felt apart. I never felt like I belonged,” Bette explains. She talks about the pain of “being different” in so many ways: She was homely, she was Jewish, and even her early womanly development set her apart. She admits to Walters that sometimes, “I’m very close to falling apart,” and that she could go the way of the character in “The Rose.” “I think it could happen,” she adds, “but not because of drugs or alcohol. I think it can happen to anybody. It depends on how - or whether - they overwork.” Barbara Walters asks each of her guests the burning question: How do you rank yourself on a scale of 10. Bette laughingly says, “A 55,1 guess.” Farrah Fawcett claims she’s a 9, while Cheryl Ladd believes herself to be an 8. The 10 herself, Bo Derek, is also on the special with husband John. Her answer, however, hasn’t been divulged • NEW YORK (AP) The famed illustrator Alberto Vargas is 84 and he thought his days of painting those scantily clad women were over. But someone with “something special” persuaded him to do one last “Vargas Girls” portrait, the New York Daily News reports. That someone was Bernadette Peters, and her portrait appears on the cover of her first album. “Gee Whiz.” How’d she talk him into it? She just went to his California retreat, asked him to do one more, he looked at her and said, “You ARE a Vargas girl!” She sat five times, almost topless, paid an undisclosed fee and got to keep the original painting. • THIS WEEK’S BIRTHDAY PEOPLE: Singer Frankie (“Rawhide”) Laine, 67. actor Warren Beatty, 42, and former CIA Director Richard Helms, 67, became a year older on Sunday. Forty-five is the magic number for Monday’s career comeback kids, musician Herb Alpert and actor Richard Chamberlain. Actress Debbie Reynolds is 48 Tuesday, while Jane Powell is 51 and writer William Manchester is 58. Wednesday birthday greetings go to three veteran actors Buddy (“Barnaby Jones”) Ebsen, 72, Jack (“Dragnet”) Webb, 60. and Alec Guinness, 66 The movie odd couple of Marlon Brando and Doris Day share a birthday Thursday, as both are 56. Famed dance instructor Arthur Murray is still strutting his stuff at 85 Friday. Saturday, meanwhile, is another year for actress Bette Davis, 72, actor Gregory Peck, 64, and writer Arthur (“Airport”) Hailey, 60.

honored theory about milk intolerance is that it’s the sugar in milk, lactose, that causes the problems in milk intolerance. The idea is that milk-intolerant persons have trouble digesting lactose. A recent letter to the New England Journal of Medicine suggests, however, that substances called prostaglandins may, in fact, be involved. Accordingly, aspirin - which is known to counteract prostaglandins - may be useful

ruff the diamond return at trick two. East’s return of the three in these circumstances, rather than any old diamond, has a special significance. It indicates that he wants a club return rather than a spade return at trick three. This is entirely consistent with the suit-direction convention by which a player can designate which suit he wants partner to play after partner ruffs. A low-card return requests that the lower-ranking side suit be played next; a high-card return requests that the higher-ranking suit be played next. So, as between spades and clubs, you should play a club at trick three. Declarer’s hand probably looks something like this:

in preventing or alleviating the problem. This is all very tentative, though not unreasonable. I’m sure it will be rather widely investigate in many laboratories. In the meantime, you might give it a try and see if it works. On the other hand, you could also simply decide that you don’t need to drink milk; you can get all the necessary nutrients from other food sources. (c) 1980 bv Chicago Tribune

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