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...When he was inducted into Fashion's Hall of Fame this fall the sixth U.S. designer to be so honored he was hailed by the selection committee as "one of the fabulous originals," the designer who has been so consistently a front runner that "like World War II's Kilroy, wherever one looks in fashion, it seems 'Gernreich was here...
...Page, Ariz., assembled to witness the dedication of the 710-ft. Glen Canyon Dam, Lady Bird Johnson last week recalled "those disfigurements of rocks and trees where someone with a huge ego and tiny mind has splashed with paint or gouged with knife to let the world know that Kilroy or John Doe was here." But the beautification drive, she went on, "is a new kind of 'writing on the wall'-a kind that says proudly and beautifully, 'Man was here...
...skinned projectiles down into hostile atmosphere and record what they report; some will land on distant planets and survey the landscape with sharp, electronic eyes. With Mariner's success to prove it can be done, scientists are now sure that wherever human astronauts may venture, unmanned spacecraft, like Kilroy, will have been there before them...
Died. James Joseph Kilroy, 60, an inspector in Bethlehem Steel's Quincy shipyards, who may or may not have been the Kilroy who was there; of lung cancer; in Boston. In answer to a 1946 American Transit Association contest to discover the originator of the World War II slogan carried by G.I.s to the ends of the earth, Kilroy replied that he had crawled deep inside ships' hulls, chalking KILROY WAS HERE as his inspector's mark. The Transit Association thought enough of his explanation to award him a prize: a 22-ton streetcar, which his nine...
...helmet at 50 yds. The effort paid off' as a junior last year. Quarterback Wright was drafted by two pro teams-the National Football League's Champion Philadelphia Eagles and the Boston Patriots of the American League. "We originally figured Wright for defense," says Philadelphia Scout Frank Kilroy, "because of his great speed. But how many kids can throw as well as he can?" Few can. So far this season, Wright has completed 29 of 51 passes, had only one intercepted. Says Alabama Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant handsomely: "Wright is too good to be coached by anyone...