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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Toy | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/28/2004 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mellon into First Boston | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Underwriting Profits | 2/1/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eagle & Mate | 9/25/1933 | See Source »

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