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...private recession. Last week steel production was scheduled at 66.9% of capacity, the lowest nonstrike rate in 20 months-and the rate is due to drop more. U.S. Steel, biggest U.S. producer, announced that it will close down its plant in Clairton. Pa., and curtail output at its. Edgar Thomson works outside Pittsburgh. Other companies are cutting back production and closing plants, have already laid off an estimated 25,000 to 30,000 steelworkers...
...home in Laurel, Miss., where her father was a sawmill laborer and her mother a midwife who "delivered more babies than necessary so I could have piano lessons." At Central State College in Ohio, Leontyne discovered she had a voice, went on to Juilliard, where Critic-Composer Virgil Thomson heard her and asked her to appear in his opera, Four Saints in Three Acts. From there she joined the touring revival of Porgy and Bess and married her leading man, Baritone William Warfield...
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...
Died. Mary Agnes ("Polly") Thomson, 75, longtime word-of-finger translator and "sister" to blind, deaf Author-Educator Helen Keller; after long illness; in Bridgeport, Conn. Glasgow-born Polly Thomson, who never lost her Scottish burr, came to the U.S. in 1913, was hired by Helen Keller's formidable teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, as secretary, stayed on after "Teacher" died in 1936 asking that Helen and Polly-"my two children"-remain together. Polly's "talking" fingers, working at a rate of 85 words a minute tapping out letters in Helen Keller's palm, became Helen...
James Claude Thomson Jr., Yale '53, a distinguished past Chairman of the News in its daily days, seemed to speak for many when he observed recently, "We used to have a paper down there at the OCD. Now that that's gone, what is there...