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...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...
...France's state-owned radio, declared that Gagarin was the second. The first spaceman, said Bobrowski, was Sergei Ilyushin, son of Russia's famed aircraft designer. Said Bobrowski: "Sergei Ilyushin is a tough boy, a kind of Soviet Gil Delamare [French parachute jumper, stock-car racer and stuntman], and his father's position permitted him to do anything he wished. He absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through I don't know whose influence in the Soviet government, and he followed training courses for only...
...only Tarzan who could swim 100 yards in 51 seconds without mussing his hair, is in the upcoming movie, Andy Hardy Comes Home. ¶ Pat Wayne, 18, son of Cinemale John Wayne, stars in The Young Land, produced by Patrick Ford, 37, sometime screenwriter and stuntman, son of Director John (Mister Roberts] Ford. ¶ Susan (The Diary of Anne Frank) Strasberg, 20, daughter of Actors' Studio Director Lee Strasberg, has bubbled quickly to the top, co-stars on film with Henry Fonda in Stage Struck, on Broadway with Helen Hayes in Time Remembered. ¶ James MacArthur...