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From, Harvard, the Woodner Collection will move to The Albertina in Vienna and then possible to London...
...Died. Albertina Rasch, 76, ballerina, choreographer and wife of Composer Dmitri Tiomkin; after a long illness; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Trained in Vienna's Imperial Theater, a performer in New York at 16, Albertina Rasch determined to awaken U.S. interest in ballet by taking the dance into vaudeville's thriving circuits, first as a soloist, later as head of her own troupe. The acclaim she found there led her into cho- reography-for Ziegfeld's Show Girl, Rio Rita, and to the lavish productions of Hollywood, where in 1938 she directed 800 dancers during a single week...
Shortly after 4 p.m., Hammarskjold and his party of 15 climbed aboard the Albertina, a white DC-6 used by the U.N. in the Congo. Hammarskjold's main concern, on takeoff, was ominous: his plane had to cross territory controlled by a marauding Katanga jet fighter known as "The Lone Ranger." The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N. Katanga Commander Conor Cruise O'Brien in Elisabethville...
Radio Silence. Hammarskjold ordered elaborate precautions to stay away from The Lone Ranger. His flight was detoured to bring the Albertina within range of the marauder only after dark, and the big plane kept strict radio silence all the way. In addition, 15 airfields in the Congo and the Rhodesias had been alerted for a possible emergency landing...
...drop to 6,000 ft. When nothing more was heard from the plane, Ndola assumed it had veered away and landed at another field. Not until nine hours later were air search parties called out, and at 3 p.m., a Rhodesian scout plane radioed back the news: the Albertina had crashed in a dense forest less than seven miles from the end of the Ndola runway. Hammarskjold's body was found a few yards from the charred wreckage. There was one survivor: U.N. Security Guard Harold Julien, who was almost delirious but managed to tell police he had heard...