Word: piper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Manchester Yacht Club, to Salem for an historical tour, or to Singing Beach. There a few brave souls, who, according to the class clown, "will never make their 50th., swam in 58 degrees ocean surf. On the links, E. Howard Roorbach, with a gross 82, and William T. Piper Jr., with a 33 putting score, took honors...
During the first quarter of 1959, Cessna sold more airplanes (958) than the rest of the Big Four manufacturers (Beech, Piper, Aero) together. Today Cessna accounts for 53.9% of this market. This fall Cessna, which now manufactures seven private planes ranging in price from $7,000 to $60,000, will introduce an eighth, the Cessna 210, in hopes of grabbing an even bigger share of the market. The 210 is the first high-wing, single-engine private craft with a retractable landing gear. It cruises at 190 m.p.h. Price: about...
General Electric Theater (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). First act of Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, with Maurice Evans and Piper Laurie...
Died. Fred Sauter Jr., 86, taxidermist who stuffed the head of the bison on the buffalo nickel, and whose shop on Manhattan's Bleecker Street once delivered 125 neatly packed rats for a movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, also provided the stuffed white Peking ducks that were passed off as seagulls when Ethel Merman blazed away at them in Annie Get Your Gun; in Mineola, L.I. Sauter was a taxidermist of the old school, a conservative who preferred to let his subjects keep their own skulls...
...week before, the government had arrested and exiled Dr. Hastings Banda, the Pied Piper of Nyasa nationalism. To justify its action, the government had hinted at an African plot to massacre the whites. Yet, as of week's end, not one white in Nyasaland had been touched, but 43 blacks had been killed and another 400 detained or exiled...