Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeleine Carroll, stage and screen star, will make her first appearance at Harvard tomorrow, Dr. William Van Lennup, curator of the Harvard Teacher Collection in Houghton Library, announced yesterday...
...while the coach was hoping to use Siamese Piya Chakkaphak, last year's star freshman, at center forward, but Chakkaphak has been declared ineligible. By the time Chakkaphak can return to safe academic water the season will be almost over. Another man Munro will miss is Mal Greenidge, last year's freshman captain, who has dropped out of College...
...range flights, Britain had the Vickers 4O-passenger Viscount and Armstrong Whitworth's 31-passenger Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined jet transport, which took off and then flashed overhead at better than 500 m.p.h...
Died. Frank Morgan (real name: Francis Philip Wuppermannf), 59, veteran cinemactor; of cerebral thrombosis; in Los Angeles. A onetime vaudevillean and Broadway star (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, 1926; Topaze, 1930), Morgan was equally adept at straight character roles (the pirate in Tortilla Flat, the coach in The Stratton Story) or at his specialty: the ineffectual, fatuous old party who was alternately a garrulous liar and a gabby lecher...
...June 1912, at a little airbase near Washington, D.C., 2nd Lieut. Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold had a conversation that five-star General Arnold still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look at the Japanese army. Did Lieut. Arnold know that the Japs had a bigger air force than the U.S.-ten planes to the U.S.'s total of four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed...