Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DOMINIC RYAN...
...another bone-chilling day at Camp Kilmer, N.J., a few atrociously accented words of Hungarian and an old school connection brought feelings of warmth and welcome to the shivering, confused and fearful refugees from Hungary. Researchers Eleanor Johnson and Deirdre Mead Ryan, who covered the arrival of the refugees at Camp Kilmer (see "The Huddled Masses" in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), found them still too bewildered to talk readily. On the way to the camp from the New Brunswick railroad station, Researcher Johnson learned that her taxi driver was a native Hungarian. He taught her a few Hungarian words and phrases...
...DEIRDRE RYAN won the refugees' confidence even more quickly by producing her International Passport of the Society of the Sacred Heart -an identification card issued by this world-circling order of nuns to traveling former students. Finding a young woman who had been a student at the Sacred Heart Convent in Budapest, Deirdre showed her card from the Sacred Heart Convent in Washington, D.C. After that, the Hungarians were convinced they were among friends...
Back from Eternity (RKO Radio) is a sort of air-travel poster that looks as if t had been issued by the railroad lobby. As the Aere Pan Latina plane, a beat-up old bimotor, goes whiffling over the Cenral American jungle, the pilot (Robert Ryan) has a black-coffee-and-dark-glasses hangover, and the copilot (Keith Andes) s a scared kid with no more flying time in lis log than a week-old wren. Even less eassuring is the passenger list: a politial assassin (Rod Steiger), a small-time hood (Jesse White), a drunken cop (Fred Clark...
Secret VTOL. Nothing has been released about Ryan's X-13 "Vertijet" which is still a highly classified project. But the technical public got a quick look at it when it was shipped to Edwards, carefully wrapped (see cut). Airplane-industry gossip has been swapping bits of information about it ever since...