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...aircraft industry for five decades; in Zug, Switzerland. Dornier designed the world's first metal airplane in 1911, built thousands of bombers and fighters in both world wars, and in recent years experimented with a series of novel vertical takeoff and landing craft. But his greatest fame still stems from the mammoth DO-X flying boat built in 1929. It had twelve engines, a wingspan of 157 ft. and a passenger capacity of 169. Uneconomic though it was, the DO-X could fly the Atlantic and was the ancestor of today's even bigger jumbo jets...
...Lahr is eloquent, too, about his father's final sense that he did not understand the modern world around him. Unfortunately, such moments only emphasize the fact that the book never reaches the secret of the genius that prompted the drunk's gratitude and Lahr's fame. The book does successfully summon up the private Bert Lahr and the backstage world in which he lived, but as his son would probably admit, the best way to know the man through and through was to see him onstage. As with most famous performers, the masque, finally...
HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). "The Littlest Angel" presents treasures to the baby Jesus. Nine-year-old Johnny Whitaker and Fred Gwynne (as Patience, the Guardian Angel) co-star in this new musical...
Though Cramer had to settle for honorable mention after Ernie Babcock of Dartmouth and Jim Gallagher of Yale made first team he was one of 11 college seniors cited Monday for scholastic achievement. The National Football Foundation and the Hall of Fame selected Cramer and Penn's George Joseph from the Ivy League...
...movie. Ryan O'Neil of Peyton Place fame plays the hockey jock, and Ali McGraw (who played a Cliffie in Goodbye, Columbus) plays his musical Cliffie. They meet first in some place called "the Radcliffe Library." then again at a Dunster House musical. Harvard will not allow Paramount Pictures to shoot scenes inside buildings other than the rink, so Dunster House and other interiors will be simulated at Fordham University, City College of New York, andin New York movie studios...