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Died. Major General James Edmond Fechet (rhymes with O'Shea), U.S.A. (ret.), 70, second chief of the Army Air Corps (1927-31); after long illness; in Washington. Old Cavalryman Fechet rose from the ranks, switched to the infant air force in 1917, returned from retirement to active duty to run the Army Air Forces Promotion Board during World...
...years he has been on loving terms with his ex-wife (Signe Hasso), who plays Desdemona. But as he settles down into a long run, and really gets hold of his role, it takes an ever tighter hold on him. He begins to suspect his pressagent (Edmond O'Brien) of being a backstage Cassio. He also experiences some sickening sideslips into full loss of identity. The company becomes more & more nervous about the frightening sincerity with which he plays his strangling scene with Desdemona. Will he finally go completely bats and commit murder...
Queen Wilhelmina was tired. For 49 years, ever since she was a girl of 18 (whom Playwright Edmond Rostand once described as "the little lily queen who rules over the kingdom of tulips"), she had worn the crown-or the somewhat knockabout hats which she preferred...
Exile of Waste. By eliminating the fierce competition between neighboring leaseholders, unitization can reduce and control venting, actually step up production for a field as a whole. In numerous small fields, operators have voluntarily pooled their efforts and shared proportionately in the output. But for West Edmond, in which 32 companies and some 2,800 landowners are interested, it took a rigid law. The Oklahoma legislature passed the law in 1945, but hearings, arguments and appeals delayed its action until...
...operators are still fighting the law. Nevertheless, Oklahoma last week confidently appointed an ex-Texas Co. executive named H. N. Pardee to supervise the West Edmond cooperative, instructed him to put unitization into effect by Oct. 1. As a unit, the field will be worked by Sohio Petroleum Co., one of the largest of the present operators. By shutting down all the wells that have a high gas ratio compared to oil, Pardee hopes to boost the field's production from a present daily average of 40,000 bbls. to 50,000 bbls. "The time will come," he said...