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...Tampa and took off again at 4:40 with 41 passengers-many of them holiday travelers bound for the Mardi Gras. It was due in New Orleans at 5:45 C.S.T., but Flight 470 was never completed. Captain Springer's last radio report, at 5:12, gave no hint of danger. After that, attempts to get in touch with the plane were answered only by a silence-silence and the howl of sudden heavy winds which battered the shore line hard enough to tear off roofs at Grand Isle...
...POLICE car ostentatiously was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. As soon as Radford landed in Washington (from headquarters in Pearl Harbor) last week, he was summoned to a White House conference with President Eisenhower. Radford came & went publicly, but gave not a hint of the reason for the visit. Nonetheless, the word got around that he was giving his opinions on the possibilities of a naval blockade of the Chinese Communist coast...
Many Chicagoans thought Ryerson was giving a gentle hint to his fellow bank director, Montgomery Ward's 79-year-old Chairman Sewell Avery. If so, the dig did not bother Avery, but it did stir up an argument among other elderly Chicago business leaders. Said Wilson & Co.'s 84-year-old Chairman Thomas E. Wilson: "I suppose if a 66-year-old man thinks he is old, that's his opinion. Personally, I think it is much too young to retire." Snorted 86-year-old Real Estate Man John E. Scully: "Better wear out than rust...
Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote gave a reporter in Rome a hint about his next play, to be partly in verse. It will be located in the West Indies, he said, with an almost all colored cast, and is "about life in a house of ill fame or brothel or whatever you call these houses with women inmates...
...Edward Sheldon, the wise father-confessor of the theater. "Of course," said Sheldon, "you have broken every law of playwriting. You've aroused no anticipation. You've prepared no suspense. You've resolved no tensions." Sheldon was right. Our Town had no scenery, and only a hint of a plot. It was really the story of all towns, in all times and places...