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Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...
...Girl Winters, who is hooked by-and sleeping with-a dope peddler (Ricardo Montalban). He grows up on Skid Row, where his playmates are rumblebums and his self-appointed guardians are a germy old barfly (Burl Ives), a good-natured prostitute (Jeanne Cooper), a slugnutty prizefighter (Rudolph Acosta), a junk-jabbing ginmill canary (Ella Fitzgerald) and a legless newsboy (Walter Burke) who packs a pretty little...
MERCEDES DE ACOSTA (Y DE ALBA) New York City...
Died. Diego Maria Concepcićn Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodriguez, 70, Mexican Communist artist known the world over as Diego Rivera; of thrombosis and phlebitis; in Mexico City...
Died. Bert Acosta, 59, pilot of the historic multi-engined flight across the Atlantic (1927) with Admiral Richard E. Byrd and Bernt Balchen; of tuberculosis; in Denver. At 14 (in 1910), Acosta built and flew his own plane, went on to establish a world's speed record (176.7 m.p.h.) at 26 and endurance record (51 hr. 11 min. 25 sec.) at 32; in later life, despite hard times and family problems, wound up with a legendary reputation for skillful piloting and artful risk-taking (e.g., he once buzzed Manhattan's Metropolitan Life tower to see what time...