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...West Pointer (1923) and onetime assistant chief of experimental engineering at Wright Field, he became (1942) the first U.S. armed forces test pilot to fly a jet-powered plane-the pioneer XP-59. Saw active duty as commander of the Twelfth Air Force's 63rd Fighter Wing in North Africa. Appointed commandant of Wright Field's Air Force Institute of Technology (1948). Married and has two children...
...surprise to all but a few of her friends. Some in the audience shouted "No! No!" German-born Lotte Lehmann, handsome, dignified, less than a fortnight away from her 63rd birthday, shook her head. "Don't argue with me. I started to sing in public in 1910. After 41 years of anxiety, nerves, strain and hard work, I think I deserve to take it easy. You know that the Marschallin [the aging heroine of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier] has always been one of my favorite parts. The Marschallin looks into her mirror and says...
...Wilson's gasoline truck rumbled north toward the Loop and the crowded streetcar clanged south on State Street almost as if they were guided by an evil hand. Both got to a rail turnoff near 63rd Street at the same instant. A flagman waved a warning at the streetcar-a switch had been opened to detour trolley traffic around the flooded pavement ahead. But No. 7078 did not stop...
Boston "Pops" Orchestra (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC) begins its 63rd season...
...Reader's Digest, 51-year-old Layman High still takes time out to be a preacher and critic of Protestantism. Last winter he told U.S. Protestants that they were "preacher-ridden" (TIME, Feb. 17). Last week at East Northfield, Mass., he told an interdenominational audience at the 63rd Northfield General Conference that the church was failing its members. Said High...