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...kin to Virginia's Senator Harry Flood Byrd...
...dealer and oil-company executive, moved into the newly created job of board chairman of the $34 million Braniff Airways, Inc. Named president of Braniff was Charles E. Beard, 53, succeeding Airline Pioneer Thomas E. Braniff, who died in a private-plane crash in Louisiana last week. Beard (no kin to the late Historian Charles A. Beard) came to Braniff in 1935, has been executive vice president
Died. Oscar Straus, 83, famed Viennese composer (no kin to Waltz King Johann Strauss or Bavarian Composer Richard Strauss) who wrote some 50 sparkling operettas (The Chocolate Soldier, Waltz Dream); of a heart ailment; in Bad Ischl, Austria...
...though no kin, got his nickname early in his career from Joseph Gurney ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, strong-willed Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from...
...liveliest topic of all, EDC. He is not a nonentity; he is, in fact, a case study in the solid bourgeois qualities that many Frenchmen want in their President. He may, just possibly, do very well in the job. Born of solid Norman stock (he is no kin to the late Perfumer François Coty, who was really a Corsican named Spoturno), René Coty hung out his shingle as a lawyer in 1905, enlisted as a private in World War I and won a Croix de guerre, was first elected to the Parliament's lower house...