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...late in the evening when Major General Tufte Johnsen, commander of the Norwegian air force's northern command, picked up the telephone. Calling him from California was an old friend, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Charles A. Mathison. The colonel's bizarre message: Be on the lookout for a recoverable capsule likely to float down from outer space at about 0230 or 0300, Spitzbergen time. Thus last week began one of the most incredible treasure hunts in the short, incredible history of space...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...
Married. Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, 64, a widower since 1939, aloof, dictatorial publisher of Chicago's blatant Tribune; and Maryland Mathison Hooper, 47, sprightly, modish society matron, ex-Baltimore belle, longtime intimate of the Colonel and his late wife, recently divorced from Chicago Fuel Dealer Henry Hooper; both for the second time; in Chicago...
...Westchester County Recreation centre. You know his brother Charles, the chap who went down on the Titanic got me to first come to this country way back in 1906." Then suddenly, "See that girl there. . . She's Edith Mayor, neice of Miss Edythe Wynne Mathison. We starred her in "Everyman." He also pointed out Frederic Sargent, Russell Thorndike and Miss Llewellyn...
During the printing of Volney Mathison's book, "The Radiobuster" (Stokes), it became necessary for the publishers to consult the author concerning the proofs and his reply was a radiogram sent from 4, 400 miles from New York. It was transmitted by Mr. Mathison himself, who was at the time radio operator on a steamer in the Pacific. Mr. Mathison is perhaps the youngest possessor of a license coveted by professional radio operators--that of an Extra First-class American Rario Operator. Less than fifty of these licenses have been granted up to the present time...