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...force general heard a noise and looked up. The Middle East Airlines jet-prop Viscount was coming into a low-hanging cloud bank on its way toward a landing at Ankara airport. And then, to his horror. the general saw a Turkish air force C-47 Dakota cargo plane lumber into the same cloud from the opposite direction. In a flash of flame, the two rammed headon, dumping flaming wreckage into the crowds in Ulus Square below. Never in the history of flying has there been such death on the ground from an airborne accident...
...Maker Massey-Ferguson (TIME, June 15), organized Dominion Tar & Chemical Co. into a $340 million sales giant that makes everything from table salt to precast concrete, and built Dominion Stores into Canada's largest supermarket chain (350 stores). Argus also controls Canadian gold and iron mines, plywood and lumber mills, shopping centers, a satellite city, Canada's largest radio station (Toronto's CFRB) and Canadian Breweries (Carling's), the world's largest brewer of beer and ale. Total sales...
Never Too Late, by Sumner Arthur Long, gives birth to mirth by lending mirth to birth, as fatherhood closes in on a 60-year-old lumber merchant. Paul Ford plays the morose papa-to-be, and the only straight face in the house...
...really qualify as an actor unless there were something a little bit fake about him, there are a few small redeeming flaws in his essential oneness with the desert. His Arabic is, well, shocking, and he is studying to improve it. He is the son of a rich lumber dealer, who sent him to Cairo's Victoria College, a properly English Eton on the Nile, where he captained the association football club. French was spoken at home...
Gently forced into his father's business after school days, Omar hated the lumber game, and he cost the firm thousands of pounds by extending credit only to dealers who needed it most. He became a Cairo playboy, good at billiards, unfaithful to his sports cars and always buying new ones. He played, too, with the theater, acting a little. Then one day he got a chance to audition for a leading role opposite Fatten Hamama...