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Fire Control. In Petersburg, Va., daily target practice was ordered by Police Chief W. E. Traylor after two detectives, hidden in an often-robbed restaurant, watched two gunmen escape after a battle in which 21 shots were fired...
...City of Merced stood deadly quiet on the parking ramp of the March Air Force Base near Riverside, Calif. Suddenly the plane came alive: her six turbojets throbbed, then hummed,then split the air with a banshee scream. In their tandem seats under a Plexiglas canopy, Major Horace ("Beau") Traylor Jr., the aircraft commander, and Major Martin Speiser, the pilot, made ready to taxi to the runway. Their green coveralls were soaked through with sweat; it was more than 140° in their compartment. They faced a nerve-shredding test of their skill and endurance: the City of Merced...
Despite his visual alternative, Observer Jose ("Joe") Holguin chose to strike at Sacramento by radar. Twenty-five miles from the target, Major Holguin, at his bombsight controls up forward, became the key man in the City of Merced: Beau Traylor had only to maintain air speed. His face glued to the radarscope and its tireless, swinging line of light, Joe Holguin made manual adjustments to keep the crosshairs on the pip that marked his target. Nearly everything was handled by the "K" system, the fabulous new Air Force apparatus that automatically navigates, flies the plane and releases the bomb. From...
Died. Nancy Traylor Souder, 29, wife of wealthy Kansas Oilman J. Robert Souder, ex-wife of Chicago Packinghouse Heir Nathan Burton Swift, and daughter of the late Melvin Traylor, organizer of the Bank for International Settlements and near-Presidential candidate in 1932; by falling or jumping from a Manhattan hotel window...
...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...