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...into the big time by ordering three big Lockheed Super-G Constellations. In service last year, the planes promptly started losing $350,000 a month for Thai. Now the planes are grounded because the airline does not have enough money to operate them. Philippine Air Lines almost came a cropper by pushing too hard on international flights to the U.S., Japan and Europe, lost so heavily that the late Philippine President Magsaysay finally called a halt...
...England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. But at the halfway mark, only 19 of the 31 starters were still running, and at the finish there were only seven. Even Mr. What, the tough little Irish gelding that had taken all the other jumps cleanly, almost came a cropper at the last hedge. But Mr. What kept his balance and won the richest Grand National ever ($46,858) by 30 lengths. In second place: last year's third-place horse, Tiberetta...
...first attempt to honor the cowboy painter came a cropper in 1931 when his widow telegraphed Montana's governor that the winning model of the seven submitted in a competition for a statue was "unlike the real Charlie Russell." World War II halted a second effort. Meantime, Charlie's friends and admirers -including just about every hard-rock miner, drive-in carhop and state legislator in the Treasure State-dug into their jeans for $75,000 to build a museum in Great Falls to house his works, anted up again to buy a collection of Russell paintings valued...
Sometimes his efforts came a cropper. Urged by photographers to pose with an English child in Hampton Court, Malenkov, with hundreds of children to pick from, unhappily seized on six-year-old Thomas Klouda and his brother Peter, aged three, and plunked them on his knees. The boys happened to be the sons of former Czechoslovakian Consul-General Antonin Klouda, who fled Prague after the Communist coup. "Frankly, my first thought," said father Klouda, "was how easy it would be to assassinate...
...Gallery was behaving last week like the Madman Muntz of the art dealers' world. On the walls of his Lexington Avenue walkup were hanging drawings by 204 artists. Side by side with relative unknowns were works by such top U.S. moderns as Lyonel Feininger, William Baziotes, William Cropper, Philip Evergood and Josef Albers worth up to $250. Each drawing was marked at a flat $25. The only hitch: on none of the drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn what. The bargain show was just another...