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...Lynn Burke, 17, a backstroke specialist from Santa Clara Swim Club, who broke two world records on successive days: in the 200-meter backstroke, pushed by Teammate Von Saltza, Lynn hit 2 min. 33.5 sec., a full 3.6 sec. faster than the world mark set by Japan's Satoko Tanaka earlier this year; in the loo-meter backstroke, she clocked an equally astonishing time-1 min. 10.1 sec., knocking nine-tenths of a second from the world mark...
...three of Edsel Ford's sons. Benson, William and Henry II (May 18, 1953). There have been couples, including Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek (Oct. 26, 1931; Jan. 3, 1938), Ambassador to Russia and Mrs. Joseph Davies (March 15, 1937) and Stage Luminaries Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne (Nov. 8. 1937). But never before has TIME'S cover been a full family portrait...
Died. Bretaigne Windust, 54, Paris-born U.S. theater director who, with such other unknowns as Henry Fonda, James Stewart and Joshua Logan, helped start the University Players and hit the big time after he directed Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Lunt in Robert Sherwood's Idiot's Delight (1936) and in Jean Giradoux's Amphitryon 38 (1937), went on -to stage Life with Father (1939), Arsenic and Old Lace (1941), Finian's Rainbow (1947), and The Great Sebastians (1956); in Manhattan...
Gripping the prisoner's box in the crowded Boston courtroom, the thin, drawn defendant spoke haltingly in accented English to the twelve men who would decide his fate. "I have committed the sin of adultery with Mrs. Lynn Kauffman, and my wife has forgiven me of punishment," said Dutch Radio Operator Willem Van Rie, 31, accused of killing the Chicago divorcee and throwing her battered body into Boston harbor after a torrid, 44-day passage from Singapore aboard the freighter Utrecht (TIME, Oct. 12). "But I never kicked, or hit, or beat Mrs. Kauffman," said Van Rie, his voice...
...dramatic, 45-minute monologue, Van Rie had concluded his testimony by repudiating a "false" statement-sweated from him, he said, in a nightlong grilling by New York and Boston police-that he visited Lynn Kauffman's cabin the night of her death. Nor could the prosecution produce a witness who had seen him near the cabin. Sweeping aside a mass of unconvincing circumstantial evidence, the jury's verdict left the death of pretty, 23-year-old Lynn Kauffman a mystery-shrouded suicide. Said the foreman of the jury: "I don't think the state proved its case...