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Jane Quigley, every bit as versatile as Mr. Barstow, is a quite magnificently scornful Polish Lady (a circus acrobat as well), and if her accent often thickens dangerously, her gusto becomes almost unbounded. Richard Hornby, the alternately tearful and sternly moral Gunner, also occasionally lapses from his proper voice (a deadly Cockney whine); but the Peter Sellers mustache and 'onest workman cringe that he adopts are entirely successful--this is compentent character interpretation indeed...
...hand to take the cover picture at Andrews Air Force Base was Washington Bureau Staff Photographer Walter Bennett, a World War II aerial photographer-gunner who flew on 16 missions over France with the Ninth Air Force. While Bennett made many pictures at the base, none was just right for the cover, because the two pilots were awash in a sea of welcomers. Bennett then trailed the flyers to their VIP residence at Andrews' Essex House, was the only cameraman to get an exclusive photo session...
...Udall's father was a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, and three other Udalls have been state judges. Udall went to the University of Arizona, where he played on the basketball team, graduated from law school. During World War II he served as a 6-24 gunner in Italy. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1954. Udall won Jack Kennedy's special regard last year by fighting hard and effectively for labor-reform legislation along Kennedy lines. An early Kennedy-for-President man, Udall helped Kennedy win Arizona's 17 Democratic Convention votes, which...
...Lombard was killed in an air crash during the early months of World War II. Soon afterward he en listed in the Army Air Forces, flew combat missions in B-17s out of Peterborough, England, functioning as both the head of an aerial film unit and as a turret gunner...
Died. Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, 57, handsome, athletic professional soldier ("a gunner, that's all") and chief of the Soviet Rocket Command; in a plane crash while on an undisclosed mission. A much-decorated Hero of the Soviet Union, a deputy Defense Minister and alternate member of the Communist Party Central Committee. Nedelin defended Moscow's western front during the German attack of 1941, later in the war shifted to the Ukraine (where he first gained favor with Khrushchev) and rose swiftly but anonymously through the ranks of artillerymen until Khrushchev casually revealed his top spot last...