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Then he took the sleeper for Blackpool, his first stop in a tour of Lancashire and England's industrial Midlands. He made for Freckleton, where 61 people were killed in 1944 when a U.S. bomber crashed on the village. He chatted with the mothers of the dead children, helped shove toddlers down the playground slides, visited the communal graveyard...
Great Circle Salesman. After a delay of one week due to weather, Milton Reynolds, the ball-point king, finally took off in his converted A26 attack bomber from LaGuardia Field on a flight in which he hoped to circle the globe in a record-shattering 60 hours (present record: 91 hours, 14 minutes, set by Howard Hughes in 1938). No pilot, Penman Reynolds was "navigator...
...time (ten years as heavyweight champion) Joe has grossed $2,815,000. Taxes have taken a lot, but so has his investing: everything he has touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from women, and mostly wanting money...
...bulk of North American's business, however, is still in new military planes. Besides its twin-fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...
Recent accounts of Mt. Etna's new eruptions bring to mind the time--three years and six days ago--when Mt. Vesuvius exploded in similar fashion but was little publicized because it was responsible for the crippling of a medium bomber outfit of which I was a member...