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...Marshall Jones, George Barker. Mark Connolly. and Rick Engelbrecht each finished at 12:42. The time was only 14 seconds off the record for the 2,5 mile course, despite the orders to take it easy towards the finish. Tied for seventh at 13:40 were Jeff Brokaw. Pete Kernahan. Bob Collazo, Bob Clayton, and Frank Prior...
Chilsen later conceded gamely that "there was overconfidence from Washington to Wausau." Overconfidence was certainly not one of Obey's deficiencies during the race-or later, for that matter. The morning after his victory, Obey was at the gates of the Wausau Paper Mills plant in nearby Brokaw at dawn to thank workers for their votes...
Passenger George Brokaw is alive because he remembered instructions on a small card on the back of the next seat and tucked his head between his knees when he saw sparks from the Convair's nose. "I thought we were coming in for a normal landing," said Robert Cooley, who awoke 200 ft. from the debris. "I sure hate to land in Cincinnati," remarked Stewardess Eleanor Kurtock, a survivor, seconds before the airliner took its final plunge-7,050 ft. short of the airport's North-South Runway...
...Allemands!" Luce himself had become, before the age of 40, one of the most successful journalists of his century. After a divorce from his first wife, he married Clare Boothe Brokaw, playwright and former editor of Vanity Fair, and they became leading figures in New York social and intellectual life...
Married. Henry Fonda, 60, Hollywood's Jack-of-all-parts turned bewildered father of Broadway's Generation; and Shirlee Mae Adams, 33, former American Airlines stewardess; he for the fifth time (his others: Actress Margaret Sullavan, Socialites Frances Brokaw, Susan Blanchard and Afdera Franchetti); in Mineola, L.I., where New York Supreme Court Justice Edwin R. Lynde sternly admonished: "No couple I have married has broken apart. I don't expect...