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...flight of the Winnie Mae, which brought international fame to him and to one-eyed Pilot Wiley Post (who crashed and died with Will Rogers in 1935); of a heart attack; in Suva, Fiji Islands. Gatty developed, tested and taught a stargazing navigational system that guided (via his The Raft Book) many wartime downed flyers to safety. In recent years he bought a small island in the Fiji group, founded (1951) and operated the successful three-plane Fiji Airways, became a member of the Fiji Parliament...
Ducks & Beeps. At length when 43-year-old Johnny Dio took the stand, he was a vision from an old George Raft movie-plaid summer suit, white shirt, dark, grey-flecked hair. He gave himself a final reassuring pat of his breast handkerchief when one woman cooed, "He's beautiful." Predictably, Dio had nothing to say in reply to 140 questions from the committee-except 140 Fifth Amendment refusals, read in a low voice from a typed statement...
Cubs' Corral. In all but a distinguished handful of papers, daily business sections consist of a raft of market statistics adrift on a pallid sea of wire-service snippets and puffs for advertisers (also known as BOMs or Business Office Musts). In business coverage, editors even overlook readily apparent local trends that often build into stories of national importance. Example: Los Angeles is one of the nation's biggest electronics centers, but most hard news of the industry comes to Los Angeles dailies from wire services and national publications...
...world, a chore, incidentally, reserved not to Hollywood but to the Holy Ghost. Let us devoutly hope that the cassock and habit may enjoy eternal rest from moviedom's commercialism, and pray that they may never decide to shoot St. Augustine's Confessions with George Raft in the lead...
Potshots. Showing up at a $100-a-plate dinner thrown for him at the Hollywood Palladium by 2,200 well-heeled Republicans, Knowland got a raft of solid applause, intoned a rambling speech that was significant only for intimations of his political future. Potshot at Ike: the budget should be cut-by $3 billion, no less. Potshot at Knight (who was avoidably absent from the dinner): "The people of California are entitled to select their own nominees for public office and not to be handed a selected group where the public has no real choice ... in determining the nominees...