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DIED. William A. Patterson, 80, U.S. aviation pioneer who as president and later chairman of United Airlines for 32 years (until 1966) made it the world's largest commercial air service; after a long illness; in Glenview, Ill. With the backing of Planemaker William E. Boeing, Honolulu-born Patterson in the 1930s put together four small freight carriers to form an airline that now serves 112 U.S. and Canadian cities and boasts annual revenues of $3.4 billion. Among Patterson's innovations: hiring what he called female couriers, forerunners of today's stewardesses...
John F. Mulholland Honolulu...
DIED. Ann Dvorak, 67, brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James Cagney (The Crowd Roars), Dick Powell (College Coach) and Spencer Tracy (Sky Devils...
...quarter of his tenure on his re-election is perilous for the nation. That millions will be spent on the campaign rather than to alleviate the suffering in Cambodia is obscene. Yet this insane system does not guarantee the best choices, or the best President. James P. Ransom Honolulu...
...disagreeably calculated column she wrote for LIFE in 1969. "I had better tell you where I am, and why," Didion begins. Uh oh. The student of Didion is not surprised to learn that she is sitting with her husband in a room in the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu (a favorite stage setting), waiting for a tidal wave (which somehow acquires added metaphysical meaning from the fact that it never shows up) and trying to avoid the subject of whether to get a divorce...