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...important new factor today is the speculator willing to take a flyer on the works of a young unknown. Tempted by such examples as Bernard Buffet (TIME, Feb. 27), whose canvases in eight years have jumped in average price from $50 to more than $1,000, dealers, brokers and middlemen are buying paintings, hoping for a "beau coup" (lucky strike). Occasionally art dealers buy up an artist's whole studio full of works, salt them away until the artist's work brings a premium...
Like 250,000 other Venezuelans, Señorita Mercedes Urbina and her cousin, Sefiorita Elena Josefina Gonzalez Urbina, enjoy taking a modest flyer on the Five-and-Six, he country's fabulous Sunday horse-race lottery, based on a five-or six-horse combination. But since they are sheltered girls who find form charts hard to puzzle out they relied mainly on Mercedes' brother Nelson for expert handicapping in last week's races at Caracas' Hipódromo track. With proper humility they accepted his picks for the first four races; then girlish independence took over...
Died. James Floyd Smith, 71, onetime dauntless barnstorming flyer and test pilot, who invented the modern ripcord parachute, founder of the Pioneer Parachute Co.; of cancer; in San Diego...
Like many another U.S. flyer, Dahl headed for Canada early in World War II to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He became a squadron leader (equals U.S. major) and married a Canadian girl, belatedly explaining that his marriage to wife Edith had never been exactly solemnized, from a legal point of view. Before the war ended, Whitey was in trouble again, charged with selling government pistols, compasses, lamps and radios on the black market while in command of a station in Brazil. He got off with no penalty but a discharge...
...hurry is William Holden, and he has no doubt where he is going. He is going to make a million dollars. He is going to make his first independent picture, a movie called Toward the Unknown, about a jet flyer, and the reason he is racing his engine is that half the population of Hollywood is hell-bent in the same exciting direction. The movie colony is now off, like a merrily misguided missile, on another of its whilom whooshes toward the unknown. Spang in the middle of a firm prosperity, the production pattern of three decades is dissolving...