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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BLACK SHEEP OF THE FAMED KELLY FIELD CLASS OF 1929 WAS ONCE A PROMISING YOUNG FLYER. But a crash sent him all the way to Skid Row, where he recently got a letter asking him to meet once more with his old classmates. For what happened then, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...month ago Old Airman Beatie moved into the shabby Hotel Delta in a San Francisco slum neighborhood. While there, he received a letter that read: "Al, how about attending a reunion of our class in Washington, D.C. this fall? It would be our 30th anniversary reunion." The letter was signed "Curt" (LeMay). It was found last week near an empty wine bottle, a yellowing Army commission-and the body of Al Beatie, 56, dead of cirrhosis of the liver...
Died. Rafael Ignacio Arias Blanco, 53, plump, popular Roman Catholic Archbishop of Caracas, whose pastoral letter (1957), indicting Dictator Perez Jimenez for failing to relieve Venezuela's impoverished masses, triggered the opposition groups into action that toppled the dictator; in an auto accident; near Barcelona, Venezuela...
...Eccentrics. With egotism their first article of faith, most of the Romantics were diary keepers; with the telephone yet to be invented, they were great letter writers. The letters and the diaries are Biographer Bigland's chief sources. Thus the reader can get detailed information on who was calling on the Shelleys in Pisa and who was snubbing them in Rome. Of the atmosphere in Europe that perhaps called the poets into being and that was certainly given a whole new range of colors by them, there is little in this genteel biography. In her account, Author Bigland...
Whose Opinion? The U.S. State Department's reaction to all this was pithily summed up in a letter written by Deputy Under Secretary of State Loy Henderson in answer to a request for information on the case from Michigan's Congressman Alvin Bentley. Wrote Henderson: "I would like to state categorically that our officers in the embassy in Ankara and the consulate in Izmir were deeply concerned about this case from the beginning and that they acted properly and with good judgment to safeguard the rights of the accused. In my opinion, [they] have lived...