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...thus voting public funds to correct the restriction of a U.S. citizen's rights by treaty, the House took legislative notice of an inequity so far generally overlooked by Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker and his Bricker Amendment followers. Also voted: $33,236 for Gypsy Markoff, injured in the same crash. ¶ Cited, in the House, three Un-American Activities Committee witnesses for contempt of Congress. The three-a radio broadcaster, a radio operator and a Western Union service writer-had refused to answer questions about Communism. Their grounds: the U.S. Supreme Court's Watkins case...
Jane Froman's $2,500,000 damage suit against Pan American World Airways for injuries in a 1943 Lisbon crash (TIME, March 23) ended last week. For her crippled leg, Miss Froman got $8,300; for her lost luggage, $750. Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, who had sought $1,000,000 for her own injuries and lost luggage, received $9,580. Jane's ex-husband, Donald Ross, who had asked $100,000, got nothing. The directed verdict gave Plaintiffs Froman and Markoff the maximum allowable under the Warsaw Convention, which sets a ceiling for international air-accident damages, except...
...Jane Froman's supporting cast last week were Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, another Clipper victim, who asked $1,000,000 for her own injuries and loss of income, and Jane's ex-husband Ross, who sued for $100,000, to cover her hospital bills and his own loss of her company. The three had lost an early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan...
...Steven R. Easton, Howard Finney, 3d, Thomas J. Gill, 3d, Robert L. Goldberg, Walter F. Greeley, Herbert Grossman, Boylston A. Hinds, Richard M. Hoffman, Frederick S. Horween, Peter W. Kenney, Richard J. Koch, John B. Lynch, Jr., George L. MacDonald, Jr., William T. Maloney, Robert N. Margolis, Leon F. Markoff, Jerry R. Marsh, Stannard B. Pfahl Jr., Robert E. Richter, David M. Silverman, Irvin W. Templeton, Roger H. Vaglia, Marinus G. K. Van Gessel, Erwin F. Vonderlage Jr., Frank H. White, Robert H. Zuege, Marcus Schoenfeld...
...minutes later, halfback Bob Albert set up the second and final Crimson tally by intercepting one of Armstrong's passes on the 50. Fullback Leon Markoff then plunged through the middle for 18 yards, around left end for 20, and around the opposite end for five yards and the score...