Word: borning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada's bid for first place in North American jet transportation began in mid-1946 when the Jetliner plans were inked onto drawing boards. Avro's general manager, Walter N. Deisher, a U.S.-born naturalized Canadian and ex-barnstorming pilot, set his men to work. What they gave him was a 60,000-lb., 822-ft.-long craft with a wing span...
...37th year in Paraguay's remote Chaco, Texas-born George Lohman was slowing up a bit. His doctors had warned him about his heart and blood pressure, and had told him to stop riding. Last week, 59-year-old Ranchero Lohman was bossing his 960,000-acre cattle empire, Red Wells, from a veranda rocker...
...reason for this driving ambition baffles many a jaded Hollywood operative. Elizabeth has had just about everything that a moderately prosperous family with good connections could give her. Her father, Illinois-born Francis Taylor,* is an art dealer who used to be a European buyer for his uncle's art business, Howard Young Galleries. Her mother, Sara Sothern Taylor, once had a good part in a 1922 Broadway production of Channing Pollock's The Fool. Elizabeth grew up to seven in a handsome London house, and in a 15th Century lodge in Kent. Her family got around...
...Born. To Esther Williams, 27, hazel-eyed cinemermaid (Bathing Beatify, Neptune's Daughter), and second husband Ben Gage, 32, lanky (6 ft. 5 in.) radio actor-announcer: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Benjamin Stanton. Weight...
Married. Don Jaime, 41, Duke of Segovia, second son and onetime heir apparent of ex-King Alfonso XIII of Spain (deposed 1931, died in exile 1941), who renounced his claim to the throne in 1933; and Charlotte Tiedemann, German opera singer; in Innsbruck, Austria. Born a deaf mute into a family racked by the "Bourbon curse" of hemophilia, Don Jaime learned to talk intelligibly in three languages, remains healthy...