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...start a symphony orchestra. From the employees of Wichita's aircraft builders (Boeing, Beech) and the friendly musicians' union local, they managed to collect $300. They wrote letters to some 70 other musicians in nearby towns, asking them to play the first year without pay. The infant orchestra rehearsed in a hotel ballroom, where the players had to sweep the floor themselves. That was eleven years ago. Today, the Wichita Symphony has an $80,000 yearly budget and not even the local baseball club, the Wichita Indians, could be closer to the town's heart. Items...
...buried") when, as President-elect, he bade goodbye to his Springfield neighbors. Third son William Wallace was a blue-eyed "blessed angel" and his mother's favorite. But Thomas, the baby, was Lincoln's special pet. Scanning the large head and slim frame of the infant, Lincoln dubbed him "Tadpole...
...after heroic Army Air Corps Captain Colin P. Kelly Jr. ordered his crew to hit the silk and then crashed in his crippled B-17 bomber on Luzon, President Roosevelt penned a request to "the President of the United States in 1956." F.D.R. asked that the airman's infant son get a West Point appointment as a nation's thanks for Captain Kelly's valor. Boy Scout Kelly is now undecided whether to set his sights on West Point or the new Air Academy...
...science, when it comes to migraine, is better armed with pain-killers than with cures. NBC's Medic is ordinarily more interested in shock values than in therapy, and last week showed a hysterical mother accusing her spinster sister of the willful murder of a three-month-old infant. After an endless autopsy, the coroner was able to prove that death had been caused by a bronchial infection. Unresolved in the story: what caused the infection and why there was no prior evidence of it. The best segment on NBC's Wide, Wide World also had a medical...
...fast-growing, widely diversified Garrett Corp., of Los Angeles, which does a $100 million-a-year business manufacturing aircraft and industrial equipment. Utah-born Whitehead, a World War I Navy pilot, ran his own flying service in Cleveland, then worked briefly for an aircraft-parts distributor before joining the infant Garrett organization's industrial-tools division in 1938. Four years later he was named manager of Garrett's Airsupply Co., in 1952 became the Garrett Corp.'s executive vice president. He replaces Founder John Clifford Garrett, who moves up to board chairman...