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REPORTER'S NOTEBOOK
Dr. Samuel Belkin, who has resigned as president of Yeshiva University because of ill health, has been working on a book about Philo, the famed Jewish philosopher of the Hellenistic period (20 B.C.E.), for more than ten years, but has been too busy running the university to finish the work. . . . The recent unnoticed death in New York of Capt. Konstantin Grubesic, a Yugoslavian army officer who was among those retired in 1941 just before the Nazis invaded his country, recalls how he saved 500 Yugoslav Jews from a concentration camp and how he rescued a Jewish widow by marrying her. . . . David N. Ditchek of Brooklyn, co-chairman of the Retired Pharmacists Division of the Joint Campaign of UJA-Federation, and his wife raised $1,000 for the campaign by having their friends and family members make out checks to the campaign in lieu of gifts to the Ditcheks on their 50th wedding anniversary. . . . Tony Curtis, who plays the role of the gangster in the film "Lepke," is suing the Israeli producer, Menahem Golan, alleging that he hasn't been paid $125,000 owed for his work. . . .
Saul Liss, president of the Pain Suppression Labs Inc., Paterson, N.J., has received a patent for an electronic pain suppressor no bigger than two packs of cigarettes, which is said to provide up to eight hours of temporary relief. . . . Brooklyn-born Bob Dylan, who was named Robert Allen Zimmerman, has changed his legal name back to Zimmerman but still uses Dylan professionally. . . . There's been a $250,000 advance sale for Isaac Bashevis Singer's play "Yentl," which opens on Broadway in October. Although Singer writes everything in Yiddish, the play is in English. . . ....