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Divorced. By Eleanor Parker, 31, cinemactress (Detective Story, Scaramouche): her second husband, Hollywood Producer Bert Friedlob, 41 (The Star); after nearly seven years of marriage, three children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Columnist Inez Robb, Scripps-Howard last week announced another new hand: New York Herald Tribune Washington Correspondent Jack Steele, who joined the Scripps-Howard staff. Steele. who in 1949 won several prizes for his series on the five-percenter scandals, was frequently mentioned as the successor to the late Bert Andrews to head the Trib's Washington bureau. But when the paper named the Christian Science Monitor's Roscoe Drummond (TiME, Sept. 21), Steele took Scripps-Howard's offer to join its Washington staff...
...death of Bert Andrews, the post of Washington bureau chief for the New York Herald Tribune went to longtime "State of the Nation" byliner...
...column and, at the same time, filled the top spot in his paper's 15-man Washington bureau, second largest newspaper bureau in the capital (first: the New York Times). He named Roscoe Drummond, 51, chief of the Trib's Washington bureau to take the place of Bert Andrews, who died of a heart attack last month (TIME, Aug. 31). With Drummond as bureau chief, the Trib expects to put more emphasis on interpretive reporting...
Working round the clock, Ryan gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word...