Word: martin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...
Died. Roger Martin du Gard, 77, French novelist and winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize for literature, for the ten-volume Les Thibault, a sort of hindsight saga of French life after the turn of the century; in Bellême, France...
...Clyde Martin Reed Jr., 44, seemed shy and diffident to Kansas Republicans who remembered his outgoing and handsome father, the late crusading editor (Parsons Sun), able Governor (1929-31) and well-known U.S. Senator (1939-49). But Junior, now the Sun's publisher, did his best. He took a public-speaking course, worked so hard for the Republican nomination for Governor that he got home only six nights in the last three months of the campaign, traveled 30,000 miles and walked two pairs of soles off his shoes. Last week, by a vote...
...MARTIN KAPLAN Tarrytown...
Perhaps Manzù's greatest work, the doors (opposite) bear four bas-reliefs representing four saints of charity. They show St. Martin of Tours cutting his cape on an icy night to share it with Jesus, appearing as a beggar (upper left); St. Severinus, who died near Salzburg, helping a woman out of prison during a Hun invasion (upper right); the execution of St. Engelbert Kolland (lower left); and St. Francis offering his cloak (lower right). In the center a sheaf of wheat and a cluster of vines, symbolizing the bread and wine of the Eucharist, serve...