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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fuel Hardy. In Statesville, N.C., Kenneth Turner Bauguess tried his best to keep Police Sergeant C. R. Lloyd from helping him put out a fire in his car, was arrested when Lloyd insisted, ordered him to lift the hood, found that the blaze was caused by a broken jar of bootleg whisky that had caught fire from contact with overheated parts of the engine...
...Hastings Banda, 53, Nyasaland's fanatical rabble-rouser who last July, having practiced medicine in London and Ghana, returned home after 41 years of self-imposed exile. Called ''savior, liberator, messiah," by the crowds who sing Banda Comes Marching Home and cover his car with kisses, he has stirred up the whole territory by screaming for an end to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, has already picked out a name - Malawi - for an African federation that would include Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Uganda, and parts of Northern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and the Belgian Congo. "We must fill their prisons...
Donald Hume first captured the attention of the crime-loving British public in 1949 when he took off in a rented airplane and dropped three packages into the Thames estuary. The packages contained, respectively, the head, legs and torso of a used-car dealer named Stanley Setty, who had quarreled with Hume. A present-day Mack the Knife, Hume was true to his Threepenny Opera code: "If you have an enemy, get rid of him." He had stabbed Setty to death and dismembered...
Bold Venture, which was a radio vehicle for the late Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, is a carefully glued blend of sex and speed. Where Highway Patrol's Broderick Crawford roars about in a squad car and Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want...
...tried to start his own planemaking company. It never got off the ground. Last week Jack Frye, still determined to conquer a new air world, was in Tucson to seek a manufacturer for a propeller plane he designed. As he was driving a rented car, a speeding station wagon ran through a stop sign and broadsided into him. At 54, the man who had flown 7,000 hours without a serious accident to help pioneer the air age died in the car crash...