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Columbus' commandant, Colonel Louie Clifford Mallory, set his training director, 40-year-old Lieut. Colonel Joseph B. Duckworth, to find the nearest thing there is to an antidote for accidents. Georgia-born Joe Duckworth, who had piled up 12,500 hours' flying time, mostly in a decade of service with Eastern Air Lines, soon decided that too often the teachers were undertaught...
Married. Swingster Benny Goodman, 32; and Alice Hammond Duckworth, 36, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, niece of ex-Ambassador to Spain Ogden Hammond; she for the second time; in Las Vegas, Nev. She divorced Londoner George Arthur Victor Duckworth in January...
First open-air base hospital in U.S. history since the Civil War is the 2,900-bed unit established last month at Bataan by Colonel Carlton Lakey Vanderboget of Fort Missoula, Mont, and run by Colonel James W. Duckworth of Martinsville. Ind. The story is told in LIFE this week by TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby-how workmen bulldozed a road through miles of jungle while bombers attacked them, how engineers set up light plants, built water chlorinators, even changed the course of a river which ran through one hospital site. Highlights...
...executive mansion at Austin. Pappy had invited everybody, but most of the 6,000 who showed up never got inside, ≤≤ Joe Louis was ordered to double his wife's support, pay Marva $200 a week. ≤≤ John Henry Hammond's daughter, Alice Hammond Duckworth, will marry Swingmaster Benny Goodman when she gets her divorce from George Duckworth, a Briton she left in Britain to sail home in the West Point. ≤≤Satin-haired Singer Harry Richman, freshly divorced by wealthy ex-Follies Beauty Hazel Forbes, had his picture taken being nuzzled...
This tribute to a sporting event that annually draws from 500,000 to 1,000,000 Londoners to the banks of the Thames was written last month in Great Britain's Coming Events by J. N. Duckworth, coxswain of the Cambridge crew for the past four years. Had he been more frank and less polite, Cambridge's Coxswain Duckworth might have added that there was a time when Boat Race Day was also memorable for the boat race between his crew and Oxford's. Since 1923, however, this has not been the case. Cambridge has won regularly...