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...British, who feel that they need the Cyprus base more than ever now that Nasser is acting up at the Suez Canal, decided that they could not return this gallant gesture, nor afford to conciliate the underground by reprieving killers. "E.O.K.A. terrorists are not entitled to think themselves humane or magnanimous," said one British official. "They have committed no fewer than 17 cold-blooded murders in the past month...
Divorced. By Jane Froman, 45, brunette singer of stage (Ziegfeld Follies), nightclubs, radio and TV, wartime U.S.A. favorite whose gallant comeback after a 1943 plane crash in Portugal (and 25 leg operations) was recorded in a Hollywood film biography (With a Song in My Heart): John Curtis Burn, 41, Pan American pilot and officer of the Yankee Clipper that went down with Singer Froman (whom he held above icy Tagus River waters for nearly an hour before being rescued); after eight years of marriage, more than one of separation, no children; in Las Vegas...
...were totally spent. The Times said with awe: "In a way, this was the most remarkable tribute that two racing eights from Yale and Harvard have ever had. It was a tribute of respect for the stubborn, blind courage that had given Harvard the strength to fight off as gallant a challenge any losing crew has ever made in this race...
...studio in a steady procession came such famed countrymen as Diarist James Boswell, Economist Adam Smith, Philosopher David Hume and Novelist Sir Walter Scott. With complete self-assurance Raeburn painted them all. In nearly 1,000 portraits he set down, with strong brush strokes and delicate modeling, the gallant, romantic air of the handsome, purposeful Scots...
...exception to the rule that all U.S. cruisers are named after American cities, because the gallant Australian cruiser Canberra met its end along with three U.S. cruisers in the Battle of Savo Island...