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...bird naval aviator who helped test the seaplane's long-range military capacity by flying one of the three NC flying boats in their transatlantic crossing, led during World War II the Atlantic Fleet Air Arm that helped thwart the U-boat menace; of a heart attack; in Clifton Forge...
...Clifton '63 of Leverett House and Springfield, Ohio, was chosen President of Phillips Brooks House in a recent election. Joan H. Budyk '63 of Jordan Hall and Chicago, Illinois, will be first vice-President during the coming year. Richard A. Levine '63 of Leverett House and Fall River was elected second vice-President...
Colds from Monkeys. The angiotensin study is one of about 100 projects, under the center's associate director, Dr. Clifton K. Himmelsbach, employing volunteers in normal health. The center also has a list of 300 projects for the study of various diseases. Because the 14-story Clinical Center is designed for research, less than half its sprawling space goes for patients' rooms, while more than half of it goes for laboratories...
...each. General Bruce Clarke, Commander in Chief, U.S. Army, Europe, set up headquarters in the woods about one-half mile from Helmstedt. He was in near-instant communication with the White House. President Kennedy had postponed a weekend trip to Cape Cod; his military aide, Army Major General Ted Clifton, was ordered to remain on duty all night to report to the President in case of trouble. Kennedy himself stayed up until midnight, then turned in. When he arose at 8 a.m., he was told that the convoy's first group had passed safely through the gate into West...
Apparently having nothing new to say about bullfighting, Barnaby Conrad, the ex-matador (now a 39-year-old man of letters), has collected the dying speeches, curses and quips of the great. As books of this kind frequently do, the volume has a preface by Clifton Fadiman, containing his own favorite examples of words uttered while the toes turned cold (and thought up, one suspects in some cases, well ahead of time). Samples...