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At 6:45 one morning last week, Michael Melvill, 63, was just a shy grandfather of four. By 8:15 a.m., he had ridden a privately funded, rocket-powered glider 328,491 ft. into the morning sky, becoming the first person ever to fly a civilian craft into space. By...
Since Yuri Gagarin first blasted into the heavens in 1961, manned space flight has been a strictly government-run affair. That ended on June 21 when MIKE MELVILL flew to an altitude of 100.1 km on SpaceShipOne, a private rocket-powered plane funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. After...
The Mellon family will get some $9,000,000 in First Boston stock for their holdings in Mellon Securities. The present officers of First Boston, John R. Macomber (pronounced Mack-umber), board chairman, and Allan Melvill Pope, president, will run the new company. First Boston stockholders (who will vote on...
last year originated or participated in bond or stock flotations footing up to nearly $4,000,000,000. Its share of these underwritings was $318,532,000. Last week, like any corporation president, First Boston's Colonel Allan Melvill Pope, who learned to dispense with an office desk during...
Excited book-boomers have compared this unusual biography to James Boswell's Life of Johnson, to Herman Melvill's Moby Dick, to Charles Montagu Doughty's Arabia Deserta. The Book of Talbot is a biography of a comparatively unknown man written by his widow. Gravely, not to...