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...gave up plans to go with her husband on his flight to New York last weekend. Bound for a Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission...
...Died. Barclay Acheson, 70, longtime (1942-57) executive director and chairman (since last month) of the 27 Reader's Digest international editions (an estimated 9,000,000 circulation in 13 languages); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Briarcliff Manor...
Stanford University's Thomas S. Barclay, 65, who for some 35 years gave life and color to his political science courses through his experiences as a practicing politician (delegate to three Democratic conventions, assistant to onetime Democratic Postmaster General Jim Farley). An expert on Western politics, Barclay gave hours each week to advising students on "practically everything but marriage." When he paid tribute recently to one of his own mentors, he might well have been describing himself. "One of the most humanistic men I have ever met," said he of Historian Charles A. Beard, "a man who would spend...
Slipping informally into London a year after his atrocities, Haynau stopped one day to inspect the Barclay and Perkins Brewery. No sooner had he scrawled his name in the guest book than the brewers -as the Illustrated London News of Sept. 14, 1850 put it-set up "the most fearful yells and execrations." Neighborhood draymen advanced on The Hyena with their heavy whips, shouting: " 'Oh, this is the fellow that flogged the women, is it!'" A flying squad of police finally dragged him, bloody and beaten, to the safety of a police boat, and, "in the course...
...against Tubman on the Independent True Whig ticket was an ex-President of Liberia named Edwin Barclay. Last week police surrounded his marble house, but they did not lay a hand on him. After all, his cousin, Antoinette Padmore Tubman, is Liberia's First Lady...