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...swamp gas might have been particularly thick around Manhattan that day. Knut Hammarskjöld, 44, director general of the International Air Transport Association, was conjuring up otherworldly aircraft at a meeting of the Aviation Space Writers Association. "I must make a confession," said Knut, whose Uncle Dag Hammarskjold was rather a mystic before him. "I believe in those Unidentified Flying Objects. Is it really unlikely that there exist civilizations outside our planet which are more developed, both technically and mentally, than we are? Are these space neighbors of ours getting more interested in what we are doing...
Lillian Ross is a girl-about-town. She frequents the Village, Central Park, the hairdresser's and other people's apartments. Her tastes in celebrities range from the late Dag Hammarskjold to Zero Mostel to Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side...
...Hildred finally retired as head of IATA. In picking his successor, IATA members clearly showed that they thought it was time to have a diplomat instead of a curmudgeon to lead the organization. Taking over is Knut HammarskjÖld, 44, a nephew of the United Nations' late Dag HammarskjÖld. Knut has most recently served as deputy secretary-general of the European Free Trade Association in Geneva. He seems to lean toward lower fares, but everyone expects that whatever he does, he will do it more tactfully than Hildred...
...other misprinted sheets that had not been sold, but embarrassed Zone officials decided to print more, Harris' saturate dreams of the market philatelic and ruin treasure. They were taking their cue from one time Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who had highhandedly ordered a flood of deliberately misprinted Dag HammarskjÖld commemoratives in order to devaluate an accidental misprint (TIME...
...Dag's mother, on the other hand, was "warm and gushing." Dag was her fourth son, and because she had yearned all along for a daughter, she dressed young Dag for a long time in girl's clothes. Says Stolpe: "One may, without wishing to touch upon a delicate theme, guess at some connection between, on the one hand, Dag's attitude to his devotedly loved, exacting mother and his stern, reserved demigod of a father and, on the other, the fact that throughout his life he remained not only unmarried but so far as is known...