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Since the war he has made a specialty of Southern California's aviation industries. But he has reported a wide range of cover stories from Olivia de Havilland (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948) and Olympic Athlete Bob Mathias (TIME, July 21, 1952) to Test Pilot Bill Bridgeman (TIME, April 27, 1953) and Air Surgeon John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept...
With jets athunder, a new de Havilland Comet III, successor to the ill-starred Comet I, took off from Hatfield, north of London last week and roared 11.440 miles to Sydney, Australia in record flying time: 24 hr. 23 min.. for an average speed of about 475 m.p.h. All Britain hailed the flight as a national triumph...
...Olivia de Havilland was heaped with plaudits in 1949 for her characterization of the mentally disturbed young woman. Her sensitive countenance reveals the changing moods of a deranged mind. The light and dark spreading across her face when a nagging word aggravates the unbalanced mind is very effective; she loses, and then regains, at a moment's notice the inhibitions of the sane...
...concerned but helpless bystander, he is barely convincing. Although Stevens is a trifle too All-American and anxious, his voice as narrator in some flashback scenes is far more pleasing. Leo Genn is appropriately noble as the young healer who must fight his boss over methods for Miss de Havilland's cure. He is strong, intelligent, calm, and quite impressive...
...screen she became in real life -at least for the rest of the day. After the weekly Weissmuller, she and her two brothers played Tarzan in the sumac ("I was an ape"). As the movie-madness grew, she became Vivien Leigh, Ginger Rogers, Olivia de Havilland. She filled dozens of scrapbooks with pictures of her favorites. The high point of her girlhood came when a schoolboy said she reminded him of Bette Davis. Gone With the Wind she saw 13 times, and in one month of 1942 she sat through 52 motion pictures...