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...been around. These days Raymond Chandler's Eye seldom travels from L.A., but like his original, Carey maintains the air of an adventurer, a man who might take one drink too many and wind up m Singapore with a full beard. Up from Hackensack, N.J., with stopovers as a Wall Street runner and a Jones Beach lifeguard, Carey has long been an admirer of Chandler's books, is openly proud of the fact that Chandler told him he would make a great Marlowe. What Chandler (who died last March) would think of the rest of the TV show...
...North Carolina College at Durham, he is a slave's grandson, one of five accomplished children of a Methodist minister. His brother E. Frederic is a White House administrative officer (Special Projects), brother William is a Regular U.S. Army sergeant in Germany, brother Eugene works for the Hackensack (N.J.) Board of Education...
...disciplined life had its lighter moments. Lyman, the daring one, taught younger brother Ernest (now with a building-construction firm in Hackensack, N.J.) how to swim, shook the town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back...
Walter Marty Schirra Jr., 36, Navy lieutenant commander, 185 lbs., 5 ft. 10 in., brown eyes, brown hair. Episcopalian. Born: Hackensack, N.J.; graduated U.S. Naval Academy, '45 (215th in a class of 1,045). Wally Schirra, son of a World War I ace, learned to fly a plane as a youngster ("It was in the family"), has logged 3,000 military flight hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop...
...lightly, whatever "London newsmen" may say, the matter of Spanish "champagne." The vital question of true and false indications of origin is involved, by implication the copyright and trademark laws, and the whole fabric of international agreements concerning labeling. Without these we would have commercial chaos: "English woolens" from Hackensack, "Scotch whisky" from Illinois, "French perfume" from Mexico, "Florida oranges" from Spain...