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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waiting for the trip home, Columbine's commander, Lieut. Colonel William G. Draper, who flew Ike at SHAPE, kept his eight-man crew in peak sharpness. They flew around Denver at least four hours a week (minimum: 30 hours monthly), made at least one weekly round trip to Washington at the 13,000-to-15,000-ft. altitude planned for taking the President home. "A flying plane," said Pilot Draper, "is a safe plane...
...showed the intensity of concentration that has never left him. He became a bridge addict. After a bridge session, Averell would return to his room and sit for hours doing postmortems. He learned to memorize the hands and plays, and then would reconstruct them. His daughter Kathleen (Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Jr.), recalling his stories of this exercise in memory training, has said: "It's one of the best things he got out of Yale...
...Harriman used to play croquet (Harriman had dismounted from polo by that time) at Herbert Bayard Swope's estate on Long Island. It was the beginning of a great friendship. Wrote crotchety old Harold Ickes: "Mr. Harriman was one of the famous group of patron-protégés of the late Harry Hopkins. Probably he was the chief of these. He was always willing to scratch Harry Hopkins' back just as Hopkins was willing to scratch his ... He started Harriman on his public career, and kept promoting him until the very...
MOVIE-TV BATTLE will soon be intensified by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer giveaway gimmick aimed at luring children and parents away from TV sets. Quaker Oats, will insert tickets to two new M-G-M movies in each, of 80 million packages of cereal. The free tickets can be used only by children under 12. The catch: they must be accompanied by an adult-who will have to pay regular admission...
Winthrop House: David C. Baum, of Highland Park, Ill; Robert M. O'Neil, of Cambridge, Mass.; and Arthur G. Siler, of Orinda, Calif...