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...Breda, a country milkmaid in the County Kerry village of Lispole, a speck on the map not far from Tralee, wrote of raising a greyhound, of playing a few parts on the stage at Killarney, of hoping some day to teach Frank the hornpipe. Frank, who was now an arc welder, wrote that he had sold his 1941 automobile, cashed in his war bonds and was setting aside $80 a month until he had enough for an airplane trip to County Kerry...
Born. To Cinemactress Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman, 36, and Director Roberto (The Miracle) Rossellini, 46: twin girls, their second and third children, her third and fourth, his fourth and fifth. Names: Isabella Fiorella (6 Ibs. 15 oz.; 6:30 p.m.) and Isotta Ingrid (7 Ibs. 1 oz.; 7 p.m.); in Rome...
...Marine judo instructor, spent four years at U.S. camps dreaming of green fairways. In 1948, back to golf, he became head pro at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains, N.Y. Jack Burke can teach the game as well as he plays it; his trademarks are long giant-arc hitting, delicately accurate iron shots. A confirmed bachelor, he sees "no chance of my getting married. I've got to stay out of that trap until I get some golfing done...
...slowly descending approach to the landing runway, Captain Reid was flying along the shallow arc of a radio glide path. This was standard airline technique-to make bad-weather landings by I.L.S. (Instrument Landing System), with two crossed needles on the instrument panel to register any deviation from course...
Along a great arc sweeping from the equator in mid-Atlantic to Irkutsk in central Siberia, the sun will be in total eclipse on Feb. 25. Last week an expedition of scientists from the U.S. Air Force, the Naval Research Laboratories, the National Geographic Society and the Universities of Denver and Colorado set out for way stations on the eclipse's 70-mile-wide path. When the moon's shadow climbs northeastward over half the world, the experts will be waiting with telescope, camera and electronic recording equipment. By their observations they hope: 1) to correct their maps...