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...DURWARD E. TIMMONS...
Died. Jessie Bond, 89, last but one of the original Savoyards,* player of numerous Gilbert & Sullivan roles (including Iolanthe, Pitti-Sing in The Mikado, Edith in The Pirates of Penzance) ; in Worthing, England. She retired in 1896. Only surviving Savoyard: Durward Lely of Glasgow...
Artist Johnson started the Academy mural as a PWA job in December 1933, moved to West Point with two assistants in April 1935. Total cost: about $4,000, an astonishingly small sum for so large a work. Major General William Durward Connor, Superintendent at West Point, gave the artists plenty of advice on military matters, successfully requested that Napoleon be painted standing so that Wellington did not overshadow him. Like their commander, the cadets made numerous suggestions, once left for Artist Johnson this note...
Three days after the Army started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer...
Appointed. Major General William Durward Connor, 57; to be superintendent of the U. S. Military Academy; succeeding Major General William Ruthven Smith, who will retire. General Connor sold 1,400 million dollars worth of war supplies to the French Government for 400 millions after the Armistice...