Word: pangborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Franklin Pangborn, 60-odd, longtime cinemactor-comedian, stage and TV performer, who played foil to W.C. Fields in The Bank Dick and Never Give a Sucker an Even Break, to Jack Benny in The Horn Blows at Midnight and George Washington Slept Here; after an operation; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Died. Clyde Pangborn, 61, oldtime airman, who, with Hugh Herndon Jr., made the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean (1931), also flew and wing-walked for the famed Gates Flying Circus, ferried bombers and transports to England during World War II, demonstrated Designer Vincent J. Burnelli's Flying Wing; of a pulmonary infarction; in Manhattan. When Tokyo's daily Asahi offered $25,000 for the transpacific flight. Pangborn and partner took their Bellanca monoplane to Japan, ready to try. On arrival, they were clapped into jail as spies, for taking pictures. After a 21-day trial (total...
...after-hours drinking dive, in which Bennett denied his previous story that he had paid Schrunk $500 protection money in September 1955-the incident on which the indictment was based. Though last week it ran two editorials criticizing Teamster brass, the Journal continued to maintain, as its Editor Arden Pangborn had put it to Senator McClellan, that it had no space for reporting based on "contact with pimps, madams and prostitutes...
...Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed his thesis on Calvinism : Dr. M. Willard Lampe (Presbyterian), the School of Religion's director, Dr. Marcus Bach (Evangelical and Reformed), Father Robert Welch (Catholic), the Rev. Cyrus Pangborn (Congregationalist). Rabbi Frederick Bargebuhr, plus two members of the university's history department...