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...Airman series, circa 1927, or the Wills Sainte Claire Gray Goose, last seen in 1928. Your advance notices of what 1958 has in store doom me to continuing disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 29, 1957 | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

Mary Leona Ennis (her real name) is only 18. Even at 13, she was a lovely, ambitious doll. Handsome Airman Gene Ennis began dating her in 1952, married her in 1954. Though Gene was a well-liked, hard-working Air Forceman (monthly pay: $370.90) Mary Leona yearned as always for the excitement of bright lights, attention and luxury. She studied modeling, parceled the kids out to friends and relatives, then jumped at Maryland's beauty contest and the chance for Miss U.S.A. Husband Gene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Stairway to the Stars | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...factory, dropped his nine-year-old Wednesday evening TV variety hour, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends. His explanation: "I'm pooped." That still left Godfrey fans with his morning TV and radio stint and his Monday-evening Talent Scouts. In the Wednesday farewell, televised from his Virginia estate, Airman Godfrey, flying into camera in a helicopter, introduced such hearthside pals as Jocko the donkey, Petie the monkey, Goldie the palomino and a poodle named Chippie. He also read a wire from CBS TV President Merle Jones: "Please don't give up any other shows." To a Manhattan interviewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Busy Air | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Near the Athens airport last week, a U.S. military car driven by a U.S. airman struck two pedestrians, killing 66-year-old General Stefanos Sarafis, a member of Parliament and World War II guerrilla hero, and injuring his wife Marion. On orders from U.S. Ambassador George Allen, the airman was handed over immediately to Greek authorities, who charged him with negligent manslaughter, and said he had been drinking and speeding. Apprehensive lest there be a repetition of last fortnight's riots in Taipei, Greek authorities called out police to surround the U.S. embassy and the cathedral where General Sarafis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FORMOSA: The Raw Nerve | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

...Airman Bush said the adventure began when a fellow passenger on a Bangkok-Hong Kong commercial airline flight confided to him: "I've been contacted to find a pilot to fly someone out of China." The passenger, said Bush, turned out to be a British travel agent, based in Bangkok, by the name of Mike Sullivan. Pilot Bush and his new friend continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Where's the Dragon Lady? | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

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