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Married. Marine Corps Reserve Colonel Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, 46, World War II ace (28 Japanese planes), reformed tosspot and bestselling autobiographer (Baa Baa Black Sheep); and TV Actress Dolores ("Dee") Tatum, 33; he for the third time ("first time I've been married sober"), she for the second; in Denver...
Married. Debbie Montgomery Minardos Power, 27, widow of Cinemactor Tyrone Power; and Movie Scion Arthur Loew Jr., 33 ; she for the third time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
Died. James Allan Mollison, 54, Scottish aviator, first (in 1932) to fly the Atlantic solo from east to west (in a tiny de Havilland Puss Moth monoplane) ; of pneumonia ; in London. A Royal Air Force pilot while still in his teens, Jimmy Mollison went on to set a flock of post-Lindbergh records, including Australia-England (1931) in 8 days, England-Cape Town (1932) in less than 5, and, with First Wife Amy Johnson Mollison, also a headlined pilot, England-India (1934) in 22 hours (not a record...
Died. Dr. Valeria Hopkins Parker, 80, longtime social hygiene specialist and marriage counselor, whose crusades made her a pioneer suffragette, Connecticut's first woman probation officer, later its first state policewoman; in Greenwich, Conn...
...billion in sales; the Government, $710 million in taxes; the nation, 30.9 million tons of steel production. The Commerce Department estimated that the rate of the gross national product dropped $3.5 billion in the third quarter. An index of the eight key economic barometers fell farther in the first three months of the strike than during the first three months of the 1957 recession. The U.S. faced widespread shutdowns in industries that depend on the basic metal...