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Died. Richard Chichester du Pont, 32, gliding champion of the '30s, special assistant on gliders to the Chief of the U.S. Air Forces; in a glider crash; near March Field, Calif. Son of A. Felix du Pont of the Delaware chemicals clan, he set several soaring records between 1933 and '39, was National Soaring champion for three years...
...PINK UMBRELLA -Frances Crane- J. B, Lippincott ($2). Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police lieutenant enliven a tightly plotted, brightly told tale, with an unexpected finish...
Bill Gentry, major dome of swimming managers (all of whom wear white ducks, shirts, sneakers--fashion note) has an added duty common to only a few of his clan. At every home meet, Bill is the MC, and his customary shyness must be disspelled for the moment as he announces to an adoring throng that Geoligan won the 50 yard dog paddle in exactly six seconds flat. For the Eastern intercollegiates last weekend, Gentry added a dapper white jacket to his costime. It had that certain touch...
Down from his native hills stormed the patriarchal, kilted Chief of the Kerry Clan, The McGillycuddy of the Reeks, the heights above the Lakes of Killarney. The McGillycuddy averred that a lack of censorship would spread venereal disease. He knew, he said, how frightful that could be. Anyone well acquainted with Port Said and Buenos Aires would agree...
...Warriors. But where tiny Wong has kept charts, the burly chieftains of the famed Ma clan of Moslem warriors have kept their own armies in the Northwest. ("Of ten Moslems, nine are Ma; he who is not a Ma is then surely a Ha.") Most powerful and progressive of the clan is bushy-bearded General Ma Pufang, governor of the province of Chinghai, who has his own crack army of 50,000 men. The soldiers of his elder brother, General Ma Pu-ching, lord of the Kansu panhandle, completed the road to Russia in 1938, now are working on another...