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...beginning as a gleam in the eye of Young & Rubicam's Adman Dan Seymour, one-time M.C. of radio & TV's We The People. He sold it first to Oscar Hammerstein, who says: "We thought it was impossible in such a short time, but we took a flyer." Directed and produced by CBS's Ralph Levy, the continuity and casting of the musical numbers was the responsibility of Rodgers and Hammerstein ("But all those complimentary things they said about us, we didn't write...
...Passed, in the House, a bill changing the name of Armistice Day to Veterans Day-in recognition of the fact that the U.S. has gone through two major wars since Nov. 11, 1918. ¶ Voted, in the House, to permit former Lieut. Zdzislaw Jazwinski, Polish flyer who escaped to Denmark in a Soviet-built MIG, to live in the U.S. ¶Added, in the Senate Finance Committee, some $50 million in excise tax cuts to the $912 million reduction already called for in a House-passed bill. Included was a move to exempt regular-season college athletic contests and some...
...Best. A jerky mixture of airman's logbook and autobiography, Knoke's is the first full-dress narrative to appear in the U.S., told by one of the losers, of the great air battles that were fought over Western Europe in World War II. As a professional flyer's scrapbook, it makes gripping, convincing reading, but it is spoiled, perhaps inevitably, by a scum of Nazi notions that nine years' retrospect and the detergent efforts of a British editor have signally failed to remove. Introducing Knoke, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood R. ("Pete") Quesada, wartime chief...
...Force's senior officer, four-star General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon,* 61, chief of the Tactical Air Command, will retire in March, the Air Force announced, after 36 years of service, 33 of them as a flyer. As commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe at the close of World War II, General Cannon had already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster...
...climb was the climax of a weekend of skiing and mountain climbing by the Stanford University Alpine Club. In charge was a young (21) but expert mountaineer, Jon Lindbergh, son of the famed flyer and a marine biology student at Stanford. By 12,200 ft., all except Edgar Hopf had switched to spiked crampons. He was still on skis and in the lead when he slipped and tumbled backwards...