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Forging his way across the wilds of Washington, D.C., intrepid Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard Evelyn Byrd, 66, who always reached his goal in his dashes to the North and South Poles, showed up at the local Columbia Broadcasting System offices and proclaimed his readiness to record an interview about "Operation Deepfreeze," his new Navy expedition to Antarctica, due to get under way next month. CBS welcomed him warmly, invited the admiral to cool his heels while it explored its program schedules. Half an hour later, it developed that the famed explorer had missed his bearings. Near by, the Mutual Broadcasting...
...regret your conduct?" asked the prosecutor. Wintle was incredulous. "Not in the very least!" he snapped. With that, Lieut. Colonel Wintle (ret.) wheeled and marched off to six months in prison at Wormwood Scrubs. Said London's Daily Express admiringly: "You may say or think what you like about Alfred Wintle. But here is an Englishman...
Frank W. Abrams, chairman of the board (ret.), Standard Oil Company of NJ. . . . LL.D...
...president of Virginia's College of William and Mary, Vice Admiral Alvin D. Chandler, USN (ret.) has tried to make the easygoing campus a taut ship (TIME, Oct. 22, 1951). Last fortnight he announced that the governing Board of Visitors had ordered him to put tighter regulations into effect next fall. The new rules: no beer on campus, chaperons for every fraternity party, closer administrative control of student publications. Last week the students made public their answer to ship's discipline. In a special poll of the 1,700 undergraduates, more than half of the 1,165 answering...
Died. Admiral John Henry Towers, U.S.N. (ret.), 70, pioneer in naval aviation, who flew the first U.S. Navy seaplane in 1911, became commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in 1945 in a shake-up that indicated the increasing importance of Navy aviation; of cancer; in New York City. In 1919 Towers organized a flight of three seaplanes across the Atlantic, crash-landed his NC-3, taxied 205 miles to the Azores, got the Navy Cross after one of the planes reached Portugal safely-the first plane to cross the Atlantic...