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...Merlin Bishop of Avon, international representative of the United Auto Workers, C.I.O.; Carl A. Gray of Farmington, manufacturer of electronics equipment; Mrs. Robert Mahoney of Hartford, trustee of the University of Connecticut; Mrs. Clifford F. Thompson of Wallingford, onetime state president of the P.T.A...
Last week Hives put his hand to another new project. He reopened Rolls's huge Glasgow plant to mass-produce the new Avon jet engine (7,500-lb. thrust), successor to the Derwent and Nene (TIME, Oct. 16). The engines made there will go into the sleek Canberra twin-engine bomber, now being built in England for the R.A.F. and a bright possibility for the U.S. Air Force...
Died. Sir Archibald Dennis Flower, 85, who made a career of memorializing Shakespeare; in Stratford upon Avon. As chairman (since 1900) of the Trustees and Guardians of Shakespeare's Birthplace and of the town's Shakespeare Memorial Theater (1900-46), Sir Archibald hoped to keep the theater pure and local ("Visiting stars? Over my dead body!"), surrendered to professionalism in 1946 when outside Shakespearian actors were brought in as guests...
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...busy week for Britain's royal family. Queen Mary ventured forth to the theater for the first time this year and King George, Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret visited Stratford-on-Avon for the Shakespeare birthday celebrations. Backstage, the King noticed that the Order of the Garter had been improperly laid out on Actor Anthony Quayle's Henry VIII costume. Sitting down on the couch, he told Quayle to roll up his trouser legs, fitted it on correctly with his own hands. Meanwhile Princess Elizabeth was also celebrating a birthday-her 24th-with the Duke of Edinburgh...