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Died. Frank Fay, 64, wry stage and screen comedian whose up-and-down career was climaxed by his five-year performance as Elwood P. Dowd, the alcoholic confidant of that invisible, 6-ft. rabbit Harvey; of a rupture of the abdominal aorta; in Santa Monica, Calif. A gentle man of deadly humor (his reply to Milton Berle's challenge to a duel of wits: "I never fight with an unarmed man"), Fay made his first theater appearance at four, by the 1920s had racked up record runs at New York's old Palace Theater, but after a series...
...freelance patternmaker, leased a small machine shop, for which he agreed to pay 40% of his profits. So far, that has proved to be a poor bargain for the landlord. "I bang on the doors of tool shops all around these parts," says Smith. "All around-Kokomo, New Castle, Elwood, over in Anderson. I've quoted on 15 jobs. I got two little ones-two weeks' work." Smith also puts in 30 hours a week as a commission salesman for a local food wholesaler, but so far he has sold only one order...
...Federal Aviation Agency Administrator Najeeb Halaby is learning something about the pressure groups that dogged his predecessor, Elwood ("Pete") Quesada. Air Line Pilots Association Boss Clarence Sayen told Halaby that their relationships could easily be improved by transferring FAA Counsel Daggett Howard to some other job. Unmentioned by Sayen: Howard has won case after court case against the A.L.P.A...
Last week's only other major appointment was that of Najeeb Halaby to take over from Elwood ("Pete") Quesada as head of the Federal Aviation Agency. A lawyer and longtime pilot (he flew for the Army Air Forces, then for Lockheed, and joined the Navy as a test pilot), Halaby, 45, is a native Texan of mixed ancestry: his father was Syrian, his mother of Irish-English extraction. He is familiar with the growing problems of air traffic control that plague his agency. He was vice chairman of the President's 1955-57 Aviation-Facilities Study Group, which...
...Electra's O.K." So said Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada last week as he lifted the 259-mile-an-hour speed restriction he had imposed on the plane nearly a year ago after two crashes took 97 lives. The FAA had taken improved Electras, their engine mounts and wings strengthened to eliminate the gyroscopic resonance (i.e., vibration) that had torn the wings off two planes, and then put them through spins and power dives in what Quesada called "probably the toughest flight check...