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...Venetians cheered and waved handkerchiefs as a procession of black, gold-trimmed gondolas bore 300 blue bloods (including 48 princes and princesses, 60 counts and countesses, dozens of barons, a scattering of dukes and duchesses) to the tiny 16th century San Sebastiano Church, where pretty, Rome-born Princess Virginia Ira Fürstenberg, 15, married suave, Madrid-born Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe Langenburg...
Next day the Senate committee called another Timesman, Ira Henry Freeman, a reporter for 25 years. Freeman told how in 1938 he and his wife (once a reporter herself) were persuaded by Milton Kaufman, then executive vice president of the American Newspaper Guild, that the Communist Party was the "leading influence" in the Guild. But at his first meeting of the New York Times unit of the Communist Party, he was shocked to find himself the only member of the editorial department, although there were half a dozen other Times employees there. A year later Freeman broke with the Communists...
Then, out of nowhere came the 39-ft. ketch Staghound. She had been unreported and counted out of the running for days. But race officials had forgotten that in 1953, when she won the race, Stag-hound's owner and skipper, Los Angeles' Ira P. Fulmor, kept radio silence as he searched for favorable winds. Now Fulmor and his navigator, Robert T. Leary, were pulling the same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were...
...behind the men behind some new physical blessing. For no tangible reason at all, the men of Caltech have peered into the dawn of time, measured the invisible, eavesdropped on thunder over Jupiter. Their goal is not to produce, only to understand. "Really," says Astronomer Ira S. Bowen, who directs the jointly operated observatories, Caltech's Palomar and the Carnegie Institution's Mount Wilson, "astronomy is the most useless of all sciences. Why are we astronomers? For the dickens...
...duPont bequests will establish the College's second largest scholarship fund, exceeded only by the Edmund Ira Richards Fund which was endowed in 1935 with a capital of more than one million dollars...