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Died. Erhard Milch, 79, protégé of Hermann GÖring who helped set up the Luftwaffe; in Lüneburg, West Germany. Milch organized flying schools and glider clubs during the period in which Germany was barred by treaty from having an air force. He also became managing director of Lufthansa during the '20s. GÖring valued his talent and loyalty so highly that he arranged to have Milch's Jewish paternity officially denied (his mother was non-Jewish). During World War II, Milch was made Luftwaffe chief of staff, a cabinet member...
MWANDISHI (Warner Brothers). Miles Davis Protégé Herbie Hancock shows what jazz might have sounded like if it had come up the river from Darmstadt, that European mecca of the avantgarde, instead of New Orleans...
Once, when he was Archbishop of Paris, the late Pope John XXIII visited Rome to see Pope Pius XII and deliver a report to the papal secretary of state, Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini. Afterward, says the Milan newspaper Domenica Del Corriere, Pope John's secretary and protégé Don Angelo Rossi asked what had impressed him most about the trip; was it the audience with His Holiness? "No," was the reply, "I am always calm when I see the Pope. But if there is one personality I stand a little in awe of, that is Monsignor Montini...
...greet their visiting Pakistani counterparts, an occasion when protocol absolutely demanded the presence of Peking's military chiefs. Still, the only certain judgment was that, whatever the nature of the struggle, Premier Chou En-lai was not likely to come up a loser. The abundance of Chou protégés on the delegation due in Manhattan this week seems proof that the agile Chou has not lost his footing...
...heart surgery should be American: Methodist Hospital and the Texas Heart Institute, both in Houston. Each of those imposing centers is largely the work of one man. Dr. Michael DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28, 1965), son of a Lebanese immigrant, built Methodist to greatness; Dr. Denton Cooley, his onetime protégé turned bitter rival, founded the Texas Heart Institute...