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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Storm Buster. Cook, 34, learned to fly at 14 and soloed at 15. Last year, while dusting crops in the Nebraska panhandle, he made a sideline of busting hailstorms. Whenever an unusually black and mean-looking thunderhead drifted toward the sugar-beet fields of the North Platte Valley, Cook would fly into it, seeding its turbulent heart with silver-iodide particles. This maneuver provided the cloud with plenty of nuclei for ice to form on, so the hailstones did not grow big enough to fall and cut up the tender beet leaves...
Married. Sonja Henie, 43, Norwegian-born ice skater and sometime cinemactress (Sun Valley Serenade); and Niels Onstad, 46, wealthy Norwegian shipping executive; she for the third time, he for the second; in Manhattan...
Faith & Works. Born 68 years ago in the Ruhr Valley, Albers prepared slowly and thoroughly for his distinguished career. After studying and teaching in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he went back to art school at 32 in the Bauhaus, founded by Functional Architect Walter Gropius. At 35 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus, working alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In the craftsmanlike tradition of the school, he designed the first modern bent laminated-wood chair, made stained glass windows out of broken bottles. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus...
Green Montreat Valley, nestling in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, was once the 6,000-acre hunting preserve of Candy King John S. Huyler. Now it is a kind of religious preserve, owned by the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern), and operated as an assembly grounds and for the peace and pleasure of its retired and vacationing members. Last week 482 commissioners, representing more than 810,000 members, 3,806 congregations, gathered there for the Southern Presbyterians' 96th general assembly. The commissioners (including ten Negroes) debated and prayed for six days in grey stone Anderson Auditorium...
...U.M.W.'s welfare and retirement fund. As Lewis dedicated the chain to "those who suffered and died before us," patients and doctors watched intently from the northernmost hospital of the $26 million network, a five-story, glass-walled building so bright and strange to the Appalachian valley that miners call it "Beckley's Airport...