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Author Connell, 32, is a Missourian who has been a premedical student at Dartmouth, a Navy flyer, and a wanderer in the U.S. and the world. His writing is both vivid and various, and its weaknesses are the sort that promise future strength. In his refusal to make explicit judgments - leaving it to the reader to draw his own conclusions - Connell has made his first steps in the direction of the goal set by that master of the short story, James Joyce, who argued that "the artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above...
Quick Comeback. Founded in 1919 by a roughhewn, forceful Dutch flyer named Albert Plesman, KLM inaugurated the world's first scheduled airplane passenger service in 1920 by flying from London to Amsterdam in a chartered de Havilland 16. By World War II it had a fleet of 51 planes, served 61 cities in 29 countries. In a few days Nazi bombers almost completely wiped it out. At war's end KLM had only four planes in Europe, but Plesman (who died in 1953) gathered KLM personnel from all over the world, led "the Flying Dutchman" in a remarkable...
...more than average energy. At Harvard he played end on the varsity team, though he then weighed only 160 Ibs. As a Navy seaman in 1945, he went directly to the Secretary of the Navy to be assigned to the destroyer named for his late brother Joe, a Navy flyer killed in operations in 1944. Out of the University of Virginia Law School (class of '51), Bob spent a year with the Justice Department, resigned to manage brother Jack's successful senatorial campaign, then landed a job with the Senate Subcommittee. He worked as calmly as he could...
Died. Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, 68, flyer and explorer; of rheumatic heart disease; in Boston (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Died. Lieut. General Hubert Reilly Harmon, 64, U.S.A.F. (ret.) career flyer who planned and set in motion the U.S.'s new Air Force Academy, served (1954-56) as its first superintendent; of lung cancer; near San Antonio. A classmate of Dwight Eisenhower at West Point, and a brother of Lieut. General Millard Fillmore Harmon, World War II commander of the Strategic Air Force in the Pacific who was lost at sea in 1945, "Doodle" Harmon got a taste of the schoolmaster's side of soldiering as commander (1941-42) of the Gulf Coast Air Force Training Center, later...