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Shirley Barger, Helen Scott Bennett, Dorothea Bourne, Amelia Riddick Brent, Ruth Brine, Marjorie Burns, Peggy Bushong, Nancy McD. Chase, Bertha Cordeiro! Lilian Davidson, Estelle Dembeck, Lois Dickert, Anne Dirkes, Kathleen Donahue, Joan Dye, Kathryn Egan, Marta Erdman, Lenora Ersner, Jane Farley, Marcelle Farrington, Dorothy Ferenbaugh, Blanche Finn, Rosemary L. Frank, Mary Elizabeth Fremd, Judith Friedberg, Marcia Gauger, Marie Kathryn Gibbons, Jean Gutheim, Dorothy Slavin Haysteafl, Harriet Heck, Robin Hinsdale, Bonnie Claire Howells, Vera Kovarsky, E. Eleanore Larsen, Sylvia Crane Myers, Helen Newlin, Amelia North, Mary Baylor Reinhart, Margaret Rorison, Deirdre Mead Ryan, Jane Darby Scholl, Ruth Silva, M. Ava Smith...
Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...
...angles." As an example, Parks cites a married couple on one of his shows who had a chance to win $3,700 by identifying the World War II head of the WASPs. The woman whispered the correct answer (Jacqueline Cochran) to her husband, but he shook his head, said, "Amelia Earhart." Chuckles Parks: "I thought she'd kill him when I said Earhart was wrong. We kept the TV camera on them as they went down to their seats, and she was really giving it to him hot & heavy for losing all that money. It was a scream...
...interceptor six years ago, when no enemy had any A-bombs to drop on the U.S. Northrop has i habit of looking ahead. A onetime garage mechanic, he helped found Lockheed Aircraft, designed the Lockheed Vega, used by Wiley Post on his two flights around the world and by Amelia Earhart on her second transatlantic flight in 1932. On his own, Northrop built the Alpha, forerunner of the modern low-wing, all-metal monoplane, and pioneered multicellular metal construction in commercial airplanes. He had long dreamed of an all-wing (i.e., Flying Wing) as the plane of the future...
Composer Gian-Carlo Menotti, 41, won another accolade last week: a whole concert given over to his music in Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium. There were selections from his operas Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Consul, Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Island God, The Old Maid and the Thief, as well as part of his ballet Sebastian and his Piano Concerto. By the end of the evening, Menotti had proved again that he is one of the most melodious composers of the day and a natural for a summer evening outdoors. Thomas Schippers. 22, led the Menotti program...