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...kin to the U.S. banking family, he now heads a thriving guided-missile and instrument company in Pasadena, Calif...
Died. Frankie Bailey, 94, the original "girl with the million-dollar legs" (no kin to Author Temple Bailey, above); in Los Angeles. She first caused a sensation at the turn of the century in Weber & Fields musicals, wearing full-length tights and a plumed hat. At 63 she vainly tried to crash the movies, lived her last years in penniless obscurity...
...Leonard F. Erikson, 56, vice president of Manhattan's McCann-Erickson advertising agency, was picked as head of the State Department's Voice of America at $13,000 a year. Erikson (no kin to the late Alfred W. Erickson, one of the agency's founders) graduated from the University of Wisconsin (1920) and Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration, was sales manager for CBS before he joined McCann-Erickson as boss of its radio & TV department...
...best of them sometimes lip up confidently for a Wagnerian horn call only to burble or clonk out a sound like a moose cough. One man who rarely burbles or clonks on the most unpredictable of orchestra instruments is England's Dennis Brain. At 32, Brain (no kin to Winston Churchill's physician -see FOREIGN NEWS) is Britain's best horn player, and last week he showed off his skill in one of the rare pieces written for horn...
...small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat in the South Pacific, where he participated in the rescue of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, who had been adrift on a raft for 21 days. Later, Kennedy's squadron also rescued Lieut. John Kennedy (no kin, now the junior Senator from Massachusetts), whose boat had been rammed and sunk by a Jap destroyer...