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...screen in helpless horror at the Washington control center as an errant Maryland National Guard T-33 crashed into a Capital Airlines Viscount, killing eleven aboard the airliner, an accident for which he was not responsible, but which plagued his thoughts thereafter; by his own hand (barbiturates); in Herndon...
There are signs now that prices are stabilizing and that an investment in a house is losing some of its value as a hedge against inflation. Seattle Mortgage Banker Herndon McKay thinks that "the point has been reached where the purchaser can expect to sell his home for less than he paid for it"-just like any other item that depreciates with...
Died. Richard G. Herndon, 85, theatrical producer (first try: 1914's The Lady in Red), impresario who introduced Anna Pavlova and Waslaw Nijinsky to U.S. balletomanes, managed concert tours for Enrico Caruso, Mischa Elman, Jacques Thibaud; in Philadelphia...
...notorious Milton began his career innocuously enough. Born in upstate New York on July 19, 1830, he taught school in Michigan, later practiced law in Illinois. An early Lincoln partisan (his younger brother John worked in the Lincoln-Herndon law office in Springfield), Milton reputedly hoisted Honest Abe onto the crowd's shoulders at one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while The Rail Splitter protested: "Don't. Don't. This is ridiculous." After captaining one of the quasi-military Republican abolitionist outfits known as the "Wide Awakes," Milton marched away to the Civil War as a volunteer...
Died. Clyde Pangborn, 61, oldtime airman, who, with Hugh Herndon Jr., made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean (1931), also flew and wing-walked for the famed Gates Flying Circus, ferried bombers and transports to England during World War II, demonstrated Designer Vincent J. Burnelli's Flying Wing; of a pulmonary infarction; in Manhattan. When Tokyo's daily Asahi offered $25,000 for the transpacific flight. Pangborn and partner took their Bellanca monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total...