Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pods hanging below the wings. Boeing 6-47 jet bombers have been landed safely after losing a disabled jet, but in the Comet's case, a fire or explosion in the engines would be likely to damage the wing. At the time of the Elba crash, De Havilland was in the process of modifying its Comets to guard against this danger-adding armor-plated shields to prevent loosened blades from the turbine from being thrown into the fuel tanks, improving the "engine breathers," installing more fire detectors. These recent changes apparently made no difference in Yoke Yoke...
...boilers, the explosion bursts the boilers). When Eddie was judged ready, the Germans strapped ?2,000 on his back, fitted him out with an English-made suit, shoes, detonators, wireless set, and an identity card salvaged from the dead of Dieppe. His mission: to blow up the De Havilland factory making Mosquito bombers. Von Rundstedt himself wished him godspeed...
...that the life of a princess is not a happy one. Balcony bobby-soxers for years have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount's new picture, Roman Holiday, the newcomer named Audrey Hepburn gives the popular old romantic nonsense a reality...
...Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Olivia de Havilland in My Cousin Rachel...
Oscar-winning Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, 37, who once observed that a good husband should be "as placid as a millpond in July," posed for photographers in Hollywood with her new fiance, Paris Magazine Writer Pierre Galante, 42, whom she plans to marry soon after her divorce from Novelist Marcus (Delilah) Goodrich becomes final next week...