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Alexander S. Yakovlev, 46, handsome, dashing, longtime wonderboy of Red aviation. At 21, he turned out his first plane, a light trainer, by the time he was 30, had built 18 different types, most famous of which was the Piper Cub-like UT-2. His YAK fighter series was rated by French pilots as the best short-range interceptors of World War II. A daredevil and woman-chaser, he likes to drive fast, test his own planes, has had so many narrow escapes that Stalin gave him a Zis (Packard) sedan and restraining motorcycle escort. Now working on advanced rocket...
Through it all, leaping, swimming, scaling walls and trailing broken hearts,"flashes "Desired of Damsels" Tony Curtis, born to the purple but kidnaped and reared as a thief. With the help of an impish girl thief (Piper Laurie), who can wriggle through the treasury's barred window, Tony outfoxes and outfights the usurper to win back his rightful place...
...each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...
...Arts Council showed 24 of its favorite British moderns, including such skilled ones as Stanley Spencer, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Ivon Kitchens and Matthew Smith. Most of them, like their U.S. counterparts, find more honor at home than abroad...
...after the war, he bought a surplus Piper Cub and went after the mountains with a vengeance. He kept going higher & higher until one day he plunked his white-winged Cub down on the 12,400-ft. level of California's Mount Shasta. "It was great," he exulted. But still he was not satisfied...