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Died. Walter Herschel Beech, 59, aircraft tycoon; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans. After serving as an Army pilot in World War I, Beech barnstormed the country as a stunt and race pilot, in 1932 formed Beech Aircraft Corp., which specialized in small private craft, lost money until World War II, when he piled up a fortune making training planes and airplane parts for the U.S. Government...
...Force's Major General Orvil A. (for Arson) Anderson, kicked out of his job as head of the Air War College for advocating preventive war with Russia (TIME, Sept. 11), got a new assignment: command of the 3750th Technical Training Wing at Wichita Falls, Texas, which turns out aircraft mechanics, hydraulic specialists, riggers, armorers, and other ground crewmen, has nothing to do with global strategy...
...Wichita, Kans., Babe Didrickson Zaharias, her second Women's National Open Golf Championship, by a nine-stroke edge over second-place Betsy Rawis. ¶ In London, California's Pancho Gonzales, the singles championship of the Wembley International Indoor Professional Tennis Tournament, in straight sets, over Welby Van Horn...
Sergeant Woods was born in Wichita, Kans. . . . After he was assigned [as official U.S. hangman in postwar Germany], he was afraid his wife might worry about his safety. As a result, he listed his address as San Antonio in the hope that . . . she would not identify him as an executioner. [And] Mrs. Woods did not learn of her husband's activities until after the hangings at Nürnberg prison...
ERNEST A. WARDEN Wichita, Kans...