Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...O. M. ("Red") Mosier, 61, executive vice president in charge of operations, is a big, sugar-voiced barrel of a man, who bosses the biggest operations setup in the industry, spends 70% of American's dollar. A onetime barnstorming pilot, football coach and city manager, Mosier was hand-picked by Smith in 1938, is gearing every part of American's operation to such jet-age innovations as new fuel supplies (the jets eat up 2,000 gal. of kerosene per hour). American's 1,000 maintenance men must virtually relearn their jobs; the jet training manual alone...
Born. To Albert Fred ("Red") Schoendienst, 35, switch-hitting second baseman of the Milwaukee Braves, and Mary Eileen O'Reilly Schoendienst, 35: their first son, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Albert Kevin. Weight...
Married. Martha Raye, 42, singing comedienne; and Robert O'Shea, 31, Manhattan private eye, former Westport (Conn.) cop whose first wife filed an alienation-of-affections suit against Martha Raye; she for the sixth time, he for the second; by the mayor of Teaneck, N.J., in the mayor's living room...
Died. Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, 55; in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Formerly Luz Mila Patiñio, the countess was the daughter of the late Simón Patiño, a Bolivian cholo (part Indian) who turned an abandoned tin mine into a fortune once estimated at $1 billion and a higher annual income than the Bolivian government, dealt out his children in marriage to Europe's thoroughbreds...
Home Before Dark. A soapy but intelligently done story about a wife (Jean Simmons) returning home after a year in a mental hospital; with a brilliant job by Dan O'Herlihy as her husband...