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...Marquis de St. Maur and Viscount de Montauriant, fought with the French underground in his teens, and in 1947 came to the U.S., where his dazzling piano-playing soon won him scholarship grants at the University of Portland and the Eastman School of Music. Between studies he took a flyer at salesmanship (encyclopedias), earned enough to finance a cross-country trip by bus. In 1952 he enlisted in the Air Force, which decided that it wanted him at the keyboard of a piano, not at the controls of a plane. At Sampson Air Force Base near Rochester, N.Y. (Major General...
...Richard 0. Boyer, 52, free lancer who has contributed profiles to The New Yorker and also written for the Daily Worker. ¶ William A. Price, 35, police reporter who has worked for the New York Daily News since 1940 except for 4½ years as a wartime Navy flyer. He refused to answer questions on Communist activities-or to take the Fifth. Daily News Executive Editor Richard Clarke promptly fired Price by telegram, charging that his conduct at the hearing had "destroyed [his] usefulness" to the News...
Died. Glenn Luther Martin, 69, barnstorming flyer and pioneer aircraft builder who made the first plane specifically designed for mail service, first U.S. bomber with an alloy steel fuselage, later built the China Clipper; founder of the Glenn L. Martin Co., early seaplane developer; after two years of illness; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Baltimore...
...years the Metropole featured a mid-Victorian atmosphere, with small crystal chandeliers dangling from its stucco ceiling, and a Gay Nineties revue on its narrow platform. When febrile '54 lost interest, the café took a flyer on jazz, tentatively signed Dixieland Trumpeter Jimmy McPartland & Co. Since then, the Metropole has parlayed its music and saloonlike atmosphere into one of Manhattan's most successful jazz slots. The clientele is as mixed as a parade crowd: servicemen, college kids, tourists, jazz fans, a few unattached girls, and some times such celebrities as Gloria Vanderbilt Stokowska and Crooner Eddie Fisher...
Test Pilot William Barton Bridgeman, 38, is the first flyer to write a book telling how it feels to ride a rocket aimed at space and fight the sky at 1,200 miles an hour. In his autobiography Pilot Bridgeman (TIME, April 27, 1953) describes a three-year skirmish in the U.S. campaign against the unknowns of speed and space as a personal battle. The result: one of the year's most fascinating adventure stories...