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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RICHARD G. MALONE...
...three years of planning and experimentation. The 2,000-lb. weight of a standard camera and transmitter would require a helicopter too bulky to be agile. Under Chief KTLA Engineer John Silva's supervision, designers kept whittling away, brought the weight down to 368 lbs., which a Bell G-2 helicopter could easily handle. The two-man crew was picked for their light weight and warned to stay thin. The pilot doubles as observer, and the copilot does everything else, including aiming and setting the camera. Silva and G.E. engineers solved the transmitting problem by tacking...
...first 60 days of the Korean war, commodities went from 146.53 to 179.54 on the Dow-Jones commodity futures index. The current Mideast crisis has brought no such rise. In the two weeks since the Iraqi coup, the index actually eased down from 156.64 to 156.63. Said R. G. Patterson, director of Lamson & Sessions Co., a Cleveland metal fabricator: "We see no signs of scare buying. Nobody is excited...
Died. William Oberhardt, 75, charcoal portraitist of distinguished sitters, including Dwight D. Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, Warren G. Harding, Richard M. Nixon. Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, John Foster Dulles, William Howard Taft, Charles Dana Gibson, Luther Burbank, Thomas A. Edison; of a heart attack; in Pelham, N.Y. "Obie" Oberhardt's portrait of the late Joseph G. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, onetime (1903-11) Speaker of the House of Representatives, appeared on TIME'S first cover, March 3, 1923. Drawing VIPs one after another in one-hour sessions, Oberhardt learned to control his awed nerves by recalling the dry advice...
Died. Richard G. Herndon, 85, theatrical producer (first try: 1914's The Lady in Red), impresario who introduced Anna Pavlova and Waslaw Nijinsky to U.S. balletomanes, managed concert tours for Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman, Jacques Thibaud; in Philadelphia...