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When the B-29's Pilot George Jensen got the bomber up to 20,000 ft., the crew topped off the rocket plane's tanks with 45 gallons of "lox" (liquid oxygen), fuming and fiercely cold. That much lox had evaporated since the tanks were filled on the ground, and this climax flight would need every gallon. At 25,000 ft., three men lowered Bridgeman, bulky with his high-altitude gear, into the Skyrocket's cockpit...
Despite the failure of Joe DiMaggio and the retirement of Tommy Henrich, the Yanks still have outfielders of the calibre of Bauer, Mapes, and Woodling, in addition to the even younger Jensen and Mantle. But Reynolds and Shea leave much to be desired this year as third and fourth starters behind Lopat and Raschi. And the collapse of Joe Page has left the club without a reliable relief hurler...
Seattle's Frederick & Nelson, a Marshall Field branch. By adding such tony items as Jensen silver, dresses by Irene, and fashions which he spotted on trips to Paris, London and New York, Escobosa boosted his carriage trade. During the war, F. & N.'s sales were 20% to 60% above its competitors-including the Seattle branch of Magnin's. In his spare time he was vice president of Seattle's art museum, helped warm up support for the local symphony, and wrote a guide book on Seattle that sold 9,000 copies...
Died. Johannes Vilhelm Jensen, 77, Denmark's leading man of letters; in Copenhagen. Author of 60-odd books and reams of essays, Jensen was most famous for The Long Journey, a massive fictional history of primitive man, won a Nobel Prize in 1944. He was seldom translated and thus little known outside Denmark, where he was a bestseller (The Long Journey did not appear in full in the U.S. until...
GILBERT A. JENSEN Royal, Iowa...