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Here & there, in the thick of the battle, police glimpsed a huge, black Hotchkiss sedan with an outsize radio aerial. At 10 p.m. they stopped the car and ordered out its occupants. They turned out to be National Assemblyman Jacques Duclos, 56, a pudgy onetime pastry chef who is now acting chief of the French Communist Party (while Chief Maurice Thorez convalesces on the Black Sea), his wife Gilberte, a burly bodyguard, a chauffeur-and two dead pigeons. Police believed the birds were homing pigeons hastily killed. Mme. Duclos insisted that they were the gift of a friend-for stewing...
...model British Broadcasting Corp. announcer, specializing in cricket and theater commentary. Then, in 1948, he started a show called Let's Go Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows...
Professional Career: First command: 6th Pursuit Squadron, Hawaii, 1929, where he won a reputation as one of the service's best aerial gunners. In 1927 he was assigned to fly as Richard Arlen's double in the crash sequence of Wings. In 1939 he went into the Air Corps plans division, where General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz was his "boss; was awarded the DSM three years later for his work on World War II air plans; became a brigadier general. In 1943, appointed Chief of Staff of the Northwest African Strategic Air Forces, won the DFC and Silver Star...
...Samuel, beat him to the scene. "Don't jump!" cried Samuel. Replied Mrs. Durant: "Nobody can do anything. I'm very ill." But as Samuel kept pleading, she seemed undecided. According to Samuel, she grew noticeably more nervous as she caught sight of Wells, aiming his aerial camera with its long-distance lens. "Is he going to take my picture?" she cried. Samuel reassured her: "He's an engineer, holding a measuring box." But Wells continued snapping his shutter, and Samuel said they could hear it. "He's taking my picture!" cried the woman, and jumped...
Helicopter Bus. The first ten-passenger Sikorsky helicopter entered regular commercial flying service last week and will soon begin an aerial bus service connecting downtown Los Angeles, the International Airport and outlying towns. The $150,000 all-metal 8-55, which cruises at 86 m.p.h. and has a range of 460 miles, has been battle-tested for a year in Korea. Fifteen of them, flying in relays over a period of six hours, once moved a battalion of fully equipped infantry into a front-line area in 48 hours less time than normal motor transport...