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...Vienna to receive the captive airmen for whom the U.S., a few hours before in Budapest, had paid a ransom of $120,000 (plus a C-47 aircraft still held by the Reds). The four flyers-Captain Dave Henderson, Captain John Swift, Tech. Sergeant Jess Duff and Sergeant Jim Elam-did not relax until they were well on the way to Vienna in the ambassador's Cadillac. When they heard over the car's radio an Armed Forces Radio broadcast of their release, followed by stateside basketball scores, they repeated again & again:"Thank God, we are Americans...
...able to get to the pistol that he knows is lying behind the horse trough? Can he smuggle a note to the unsuspecting drivers of a stagecoach that stops briefly for a meal and a change of horses? Will Hostage Hayward lose her virtue to the leering villain (Jack Elam) who keeps a lecher...
High Key. On a steeple jack's scaffolding set against the vertical face of Mt. Behistun, in Persia, the University of Chicago's Dr. George G. Cameron, an Elamitist (authority on the ancient state of Elam), would soon be busy with his research. There, some 2,500 years ago, King Darius of Persia had his portrait carved along with ten of his liquidated enemies. Long inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian tell how Darius attributed his success up to this point (later his armies were soundly whipped by the Greeks at Marathon) to the favor...
Joining Page in the protest were Richard Bobear '50, James L. Elam '50, James W. Kuhn '50, and Frank E. Fite, Jr. '50, who asked for new rooms while the work was in progress...
WILLIAM A. ELAM Van Nuys, Calif...