Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MIGs downed in Korea), carries the weightiest decorations (five Distinguished Flying Crosses, 19 Air Medals), is the most famed of the lot (he won headlines in 1957 as the first man to fly supersonically from Los Angeles to New York-piloting a Chance Vought F8U in 3 hr., 23 min.-later won $25,000 on TV's Name That Tune), probably has the most space savvy (McDonnell Aircraft consulted him in blueprinting Project Mercury's space capsule). He is also the champion humorist of the fast-cracking group, says: "I'm probably doing this because...
Denmark's Hansen, 51, actually came to the U.S. to attend a friend's wedding in Manhattan, traveled on to Washington for a 30-min. White House call and a cornerstone ceremony at the new Danish embassy in Dumbarton Oaks. Hansen made a point of sending a get-well message to John Foster Dulles. Unmentioned, but appreciated by the Secretary of State: Hansen recently was found to have throat cancer, apparently conquered it with an operation last October...
...trouble is, Producer-Director Howard Hawks has put too many shooting irons in the fire. The picture has not one but three heroes (John Wayne, Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson); they divide the sympathies and overpopulate the screen. For another thing, the film lasts almost as long (2 hr. 21 min.) as five TV westerns laid end to end-and it makes about as little consecutive sense...
Ward Bond (6 ft. 1 in., 225 lbs., 48-41-44), a 55-year-old veteran of more than 150 Hollywood films, is the trail boss of Wagon Train, one of the biggest (60 min.) and costliest ($90,000-$120,000) of TV's saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert...
...freshman distance medley relay team won their event easily, with a team composed of Captain Harry Rich, Don Kirkland, Bob Knapp, and Mark Mullin. The two-mile relay team placed second to Holy Cross with a time of 8 min., 2 sec., with Dave Brahms registering a fast 1 min...