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Harvard finishers: Jenny Stricker, 17:08, 2nd place; Kristin Perini, 18:17, 14: Alison Keller, 18:32, 16; Jody Dushay, 18:57, 20; Merri Green, 19:01, 21; Leslie Cooper 19:05, 22; Katie Torner...
...quaint quarters at Cuenca. After retiring from business in 1959, Zóbel looked about Spain for a place to lodge his collection, which included, aside from his works by Goya, Velásquez and El Greco, post-Picasso Spanish painters of promise. An abstractionist named Gustavo Torner, now co-director of the museum, persuaded him to try Cuenca, where a grateful mayor was happy to find someone ready to rent the hanging houses already undergoing exterior repairs...
...operations clerk at the Navy's Rockwell Field in San Diego, Calif, the job of Corporal Kilmer N. Torner, U. S. M. C.. was mostly that of recording other men's flying hours. Once in a while he was given a flight as a passenger but he never had a chance to touch the controls. In such a job Corporal Torner could scarcely be expected to win a Distinguished Flying Cross. Yet last week he got one for an "extraordinary achievement ... of self-sacrificing heroism...
...last March Corporal Torner was riding as a passenger in the rear cockpit behind Pilot Orlo S. Hoffer when, at 2,000 ft., the plane began spinning out of control. Corporal Torner was about to jump when he saw that the plane was spinning because Pilot Hoffer had fallen ill, was slumped heavily against the joystick. Rather than leave the pilot to die. Corporal Torner climbed into the forward cockpit, dragged the inert body from the controls, managed to right the plane just before it would have crashed. Then he climbed the ship to a safe altitude, practiced with...
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