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High over the desert, the bright blue exhausts of United Airlines' Flight 615 burned a flickering path through the predawn darkness. The big DC-6B, newest and fastest plane flying U.S. air lanes, was five hours out of Chicago, westbound for San Francisco. In command was Captain Marion W. ("Ted") Hedden, 42, an old hand at United, with twelve years of spotless service on his record...
Amazon. A grumbling line formed outside the men's room as passengers hurried to wash and shave. Suddenly, a huge figure in white silk pajamas brushed past the queue, commandeered one of the wash-stands and vigorously commenced a predawn toilet. Don Mauricio Hochschild, Bolivia's fabulously wealthy tin magnate, was in a hurry to get to New York...
Savage Beasts. In those days, Chagall walked the streets from noon to nightfall in search of subjects to paint. Back in his room he worked under a single light until, as he wrote, "the petrol lamp outside in the street clashed with the blue of the predawn sky." But few Parisians paid Chagall's nightmarish canvases much heed. Just before the Russian Revolution he returned to Vitebsk, where he founded a school of fine arts...
Swarthy, stocky Napoleon Zervas, soldier of fortune and Greek Minister of Public Order, charged that the Communists had a detailed plot, known by the code name "Plan F," for sabotage and seizure of Government posts. His predawn raids, said Zervas, had been in the nick of time. The plot had been timed to support Russia at the United Nations; there Russia's Andrei Gromyko last week opposed the U.S. plan to set up a permanent border commission to watch Greece's northern frontiers...
...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...