Word: flyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Long a near monopoly of French publishers, the practice of wedding word and image in sybaritic luxury is now being tried experimentally in the U.S. with startling success. In Los Angeles, Painter June Wayne, 41, took a flyer by publishing the poems of 17th century Poet John Donne, illustrated by 14 of her own lithographs. The lithographs were pulled in Paris, the text printed in Berlin. At $225 a copy, Lithographer Wayne's edition of 110 seems likely to be a sellout by year...
Sighting. Norway's General Johnsen, nevertheless, knew just what to do. He telephoned his friend Knut Deinboll, director of the Great Norwegian Mining Co. at Longyearbyen (pop. 800). Deinboll, a former Norwegian air force flyer, had two hours to set up a search. He flashed the mining company's office at the sister village of Ny-Alesund (pop. 1,000), then set out to rouse the sleeping villagers of Longyearbyen. He organized a dozen ski patrols of two and three men each, assigned them to nearby mountain lookout positions. Soon three men rushed back from their patrol...
...convincing. Later, when Obenauf found himself at 34,000 feet in command of a burning plane, all the rest of the crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia-Mathews was embarrassingly frightened. He was a phrenetic caricature of the real-life lieutenant, the professional flyer who said when he got home, "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
Last week SEC was also digging into Guterma's dealings with Lowell Birrell, another Wall Street high flyer, last reported hiding out in Brazil. Birrell sold control of United Dye & Chemical Corp. (now Chemoil Industries) to Guterma's group. The stock was run up to $38.25 a share. When Guterma got out, the price sagged to 1⅛. SEC is also interested in Guterma's relationship with George A. Heaney, former president of the Huntington, N.Y. Security National Bank, which bought F. L. Jacobs notes...
...later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile, The Eddy Duchin Story, The Sun Also Rises and Witness for the Prosecution. Noted for his independence of mind after his World War II duty as a Marine flyer, Power gave up fulltime moviemaking in 1952, returned to the stage (John Brown's Body, The Dark...