Word: april
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...G.I.s. The general: Lieut. General Robert Whitney Burns, boss of U.S. military forces in Japan, who ordered the plane to return to its base and personally drove over to Tokyo's Tachikawa Airport to put the G.I.s back in their seats and to chew out Colonel Platt (TIME, April 13). As punishment for having commandeered six precious seats for himself, his wife and four children-all bound for a Hawaiian holiday-Platt was bounced out of his job as commander of the MATS terminal at Tachikawa and fined $340. Coincidence: the fine covered (with $7 to spare) the cost...
...somewhere-the telltale orange parachute with the instrumented nose capsule of Discoverer II was seen to drop into the mountains after it was ejected from orbit. And there Norwegian coal miners, U.S. air-rescue squadrons and helpful Norwegian helicopter pilots scoured the bleak, white mountains for eight days (TIME, April 27). The search-in which residents of a local Russian mining community participated on their own-was halted after the arrival of Colonel Theodore Tatum, air-rescue boss for the Air Force in Europe, and Lieut. Colonel Charles Mathison, member of the Discoverer II launching team. The two discussed...
...Tibetan officials bowed to Nehru, presented him with an armload of ceremonial white scarves. The curtains parted in the main doorway, and out stepped the smiling Dalai Lama for his first meeting with Nehru since the God-King of Tibet fled the Red Chinese reconquest of his homeland (TIME, April 13). "How are you?" asked Nehru. Answered the Dalai Lama in his best English: "I am quite nice...
...Vatican confirmed that mellowing (57) Cinemactor Gary (Return to Paradise) Cooper, previously an Episcopalian, became a Roman Catholic early in April. Glowed his Roman Catholic wife Veronica, married to Coop for 26 years: "He's very happy about...
When Actress Kim Stanley quit the cast of A Touch of the Poet, Eugene O'Neill's current Broadway hit (TIME, April 6), it was rumored that she was feuding with Broadway's First Lady Helen Hayes (Kim's mother in the play). Fed up with the lingering flap, Actress Hayes, in a letter last week to weekly Variety, said: "There were times, late in the run, when Kim would have tried the patience of a saint, with her striving for [an] opening-night level of performance-even on rainy Thursdays. But nothing will wipe...