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...Meaning Umberto II. In 1946 Victor Emmanual III abdicated the throne to Crown Prince Umberto. But Umberto went into exile near Lisbon only a month later, after Italians voted (6 to 5) to abolish the monarchy...
...agreed to concentrate on the "quality" rather than the "quantity" of NATO's present force of 4,000 warplanes and roughly 50 divisions (27 in the field, 18 mobilizable in 15 days, five mobilizable in 30 days). They stretched out (i.e., cut back) last year's lofty Lisbon targets, meaning that NATO will now grow to about 70 divisions and 7,000 warplanes by the end of 1954, instead of 97 divisions and 9,000 planes...
Jane Froman's $2,500,000 damage suit against Pan American World Airways for injuries in a 1943 Lisbon crash (TIME, March 23) ended last week. For her crippled leg, Miss Froman got $8,300; for her lost luggage, $750. Accordionist Gypsy Markoff, who had sought $1,000,000 for her own injuries and lost luggage, received $9,580. Jane's ex-husband, Donald Ross, who had asked $100,000, got nothing. The directed verdict gave Plaintiffs Froman and Markoff the maximum allowable under the Warsaw Convention, which sets a ceiling for international air-accident damages, except...
...wheelchairs and on crutches. Finally she walked onstage again, but she still needs a heavy, ugly brace (she is now a $4,000-a-week TV star). In 1948 Jane divorced her husband, Singer Donald Ross, a month later married Pilot John C. Burn, a fellow survivor of the Lisbon crash who had helped pull her out of the Tagus despite his own broken back...
...early round, in 1949, when Pan Am's lawyers invoked the Warsaw Convention, a 1929 international agreement which sets a ceiling of $8,291.67 damages in an international flight accident. Now the suits charge that Pan American Pilot R. O. D. Sullivan recklessly disregarded instructions from the Lisbon Airport. The Warsaw limitation does not apply when the crash is caused by "willful misconduct." If the plaintiffs can prove willful misconduct, they may be able to collect a lot more than...