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...Arrived this week: Jaroslav Konvalinka and Karel Truksa, engineer and dispatcher, respectively of the Czech train which made a dash for freedom across the border into Western Germany (TIME, Sept. 24). At the invitation of Lawrence Cowen, president of Lionel Corp., they will settle with their families in Irvington, N.J., work in Lionel's toy-train plant...
This air show, watched by U.S. Air Force procurement officers, was a dash of superfluous salesmanship by De Havilland Aircraft of Canada, Ltd. to mark the first deliveries on a big order of Beavers for the U.S. Air Force. U.S. experts were sold on the Beaver early this year when they tested the plane. They ordered 109 to start, now have plans to buy up to 750 of the rugged, $29,000 planes for battlefield air-evacuation and courier duty...
...Montreal's McGill University elected Beryl Dickinson-Dash, a Negro, its winter carnival queen...
...appreciate him as an athlete, he had been a five-letter man at Maumee High School. He quarterbacked the football team, shortstopped the baseball team, was high scorer on the basketball team (23 points a game), the fastest man on the track team (10.3 seconds for the zoo-yard dash), No. 2 man on the golf team (middle 80s). Though he never made an All-State team, these feats did not pass unnoticed. In fact, 23 colleges approached him with offers...
...also likes to sit among friends in his cluttered Copacabana apartment and dash off a picture. "My painting," he says serenely, "represents what I've been since I became a man-a mixture of resolution, lyricism, sensualism and festivity." At 54 he paints with bold, broad strokes the things he sees around him. He roughhews his compositions, using an elementary and therefore easy-to-take sort of cubism. His colors are too garish to glow, his figures almost too heavy to breathe, but they please a good many people...