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...Doodlebug. That was the nadir of his career. With nowhere to look but up, McDonnell took aim on a $100,000 prize: the 1929 Guggenheim Safe Air-Craft Award, for which he and two associates built a plane they called "the Doodlebug." It was an open-cockpit monoplane that McDonnell hoped to peddle as "the aerial flivver of the future." It came close to consigning him to the past...
Picture of Travail. The interview began in front of the Guggenheim museum (where a beatnik type "swept off his rakish Astrakhan hat and stood transfixed"), then moved on to Schrafft's (where John Jr. had a butterscotch sundae), and ended up at a friend's Fifth Avenue apartment. Conniff and Considine are unabashed admirers of "the young woman who bears such assorted burdens as Gallup's pronouncement that she is the most admired person of her sex in the world ... a woman who has been on the best-dressed lists most of her adult life ... the smile...
...With the Aura. To take over its top titles of chairman and chief economist, the firm chose James O'Leary, 52, longtime, well regarded research chief of the Life Insurance Association of America. For Edie, which manages funds worth roughly $2 billion and includes the Guggenheim Foundation, R.C.A. and Sears, Roebuck among its clients, the appointment promises a change in manner as well as mind...
...turned out not only Street Without Joy, a military classic, but his definitive Two Viet Nams and an account of the French defeat at Dienbienphu, Hell in a Very Small Place (TIME, Feb. 10). Two months ago, Fall made a return trip to South Viet Nam on a Guggenheim fellowship for a year's study of the psychology and tactics of the Viet Cong. Just two weeks ago, his American wife and three daughters flew to Hong Kong to join...
...Captain reminisced over lunch. He recalled how, in the course of dealing with Johnson, he had come to like and admire Moyers. One day last August, Moyers phoned Guggenheim, who was lounging in his trunks on a Savannah beach, to give him a message from L.B.J. On the spur of the moment the Captain said, "Bill, everybody leaves the Government sooner or later. When you are ready to go, how about coming to work for Newsday?" To Guggenheim's surprise Moyers was willing, replying that he might quit "sooner rather than later." Thus, at 32, Moyers...