Word: stuntman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Thomas Sweet, 38, movie stuntman and hard-riding "white knight" of the TV commercial for Ajax detergent; of injuries when his private plane crashed against a mountain ridge; near Little Lake, Calif...
...shape for the part, Actress Elke Sommer, 25, has been tearing around the U.C.L.A. athletic field. "I consider myself very athletic," said Elke, who certainly did look in nice form as she took the low hurdles. For the Wall-vaulting sequence, though, the studio will use a stuntman made up to look like Elke-which will be quite a trick...
...HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* "The Highest Fall of All" has Stuart Whitman as a Hollywood stuntman trying to stay alive through a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge while his wife, played by Joan Hackett, tries to kill herself in the bathtub. Repeat...
Died. Kenneth Walter Tyler, 51, test pilot, nerveless Hollywood stuntman and soldier of fortune, who intentionally crashed 144 planes for the movies in the '30s, flew for the Spanish Loyalists in 1936, downed 22 Japanese planes with the Flying Tigers in World War II - but always insisted his most harrowing experience was flying the 347 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles upside down; in the crash of his 1940 Waco biplane, while doing low-altitude stunts; in Henderson...
Here Nabokov becomes more poet than stuntman; the elegy Pale Fire has a lean grace and clarity of emotion worthy of a writer who is ranked, as Shade is supposed to be, only a step behind Robert Frost...