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Married. Jane Froman, 44, throaty songstress (With a Song in My Heart) who made a gallant comeback from near-death in a 1943 plane crash; and Rowland Smith 55, newspaperman in Columbia. Mo.; she for the third time, he for the second; in Columbia...
...NICHOLS, 26. is lucky to be alive, let alone playing championship golf: in 1952 he was nearly killed in an auto crash when the car in which he and several other teen-agers were riding went off the road at 107 m.p.h. Unconscious for 13 days, Nichols was hospitalized for 96 with a broken pelvis, a back injury, a concussion and assorted internal injuries. He recovered completely, won an athletic scholarship to Texas A. & M., turned pro in 1959. Husky (6 ft. 2 in.. 195 Ibs.) and handsome, Nichols can slam a drive as far as Nicklaus, though...
...Juan's hemophilic younger brother, Don Gonzalo, in another car crash four years earlier. The disease comes not from the Habsburg dynasty, as legend has it, but from Britain's Queen Victoria, whose youngest son, Leopold, bled to death at 31, and whose daughters Alice and Beatrice carried the malady to other royal families. Beatrice was Don Juan's grandmother...
...List. The crash cast a pall of anguish on Atlanta. In that one searing moment on a sunny Sunday morning died a whole family-Frederick Bull Jr., his wife, their two young daughters, Bull's mother and uncle. Dead were a dozen or so artists, some of them promising, including Douglas Davis, 33, who had been living in Paris and had decided at the last minute to visit his mother in Atlanta. Dead were Art Patron Sidney Wien, his wife and their daughter; Del Paige, president of the Art Association, and his wife; Tom-Chris Allen, southeastern advertising manager...
...Angeles meeting of the Black Muslim organization (TIME, Aug. 10, 1959) on the day of the crash, Leader "Malcolm X" cried: "I would like to announce a very beautiful thing that has happened . . . I got a wire from God today [laughter]. Wait, all right, well somebody came and told me that he really had answered our prayers over in France. He dropped an airplane out of the sky with over 120 white people on it because the Muslims believe in an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But thanks to God, or Jehovah or Allah...