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...Lieut. General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Elwood Richard Quesada, 53, former vice president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., was tapped as White House aviation adviser to replace Major General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Edward Peck Curtis, 60, who returns to Eastman Kodak Co. as vice president. "Pete" Quesada, who was wartime commander of the Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward...
...German Composer Werner Egk (rhymes with peck), who at 56 has five other operas behind him (including The Magic Violin, Columbus, Irish Legend), was casting about last year for the makings of a comic opera ("I didn't want to see them leave unhappy") when he reread Gogol's The Inspector General. Egk decided it was just the kind of thing he needed. He hacked down Gogol's sprawling list of characters to a manageable 13, set to work composing a score to match the author's farcical tale of a provincial town paralyzed...
Serving under Smith will be four vice-presidents: David W. Peck, LLB. '25 of New York, presiding justice of the New York Supreme Court; William W. Mein, Jr. '32 of San Francisco, a financier; and Richard H. Amberg '33 of St. Louis, publisher of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat...
...Presbyterian lineup, in order of ranking, will have John Brownlow, Harvey Jackson, Sam Potter, Jim Shakespeare, Harry Hoffman, and Jim Peck. The Crimson will pin its hopes on Dale Junta, Steve Gottlieb, Larry Sears, Ben Heckscher, Cal Place, and Ian Gianetti...
...only 30 minutes, a federal jury in Washington last week found Seymour Peck, 39, a New York Times deskman, guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee (TIME, Dec. 10). Peck, who has been kept on by the Times, told the committee that he had been a Communist for 14 years (until 1949), but he refused to name other party members he had known, claiming that it was his right under the First Amendment to do so. Maximum possible sentence: one year in jail and a $1,000 fine...