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American Airlines had something more than a paper dream for a postwar international air service. Subject to CAB approval, A.A. last week became the majority owner (51.5% stock control) of a going overseas air line, American Export Airlines...
...Amex it gets a war-established overseas service (to Foynes, Ireland for Navy Air Transport) and "grandfather rights" on applications for transatlantic routes to Lisbon and the Mediterranean. The deal enabled American Export Lines Inc. to dispose of its control of Amex-which it had to do, under the CAB ruling that ocean carriers are not permitted to operate air routes. But Export Steamship will retain 24% of the airline stock, will probably act as the airline's agents abroad...
...really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming one-man show in Harlem will include pictures of Cab Galloway, Marian Anderson, Bill Robinson, Ethel Waters, Claude McKay, Joe Louis...
...little item in a recent issue of the "New Yorker," easily overlooked, but significant just the same. Seems that a friend of the publication had occasion to visit Boston to see his favorite physician about a case of ulcers. Well, our subject, arriving at South Station, forthwith boarded a cab and was whisked to the Copley. What happened to him in the taxicab need not concern us here. To the ear of the trained Bostonian, however, the combination of "South Station" and "Copley" lacks a certain logical connection...
Boston girls are very nice, too. We will miss them, although I couldn't understand why my roommate and I got ditched the other night when we suggested to our dates that we take a cab when they suggested the subway. All I said was "To hell with the expense--we can split it four ways...