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...last fortnight threw a gay party in New Orleans' famed Antoine's. There to meet city and State officials was New Zealand-born, hard-hitting, one-eyed Lowell Yerex, founder and president of TACA. Purpose of the banquet was to dramatize Am Ex's request to CAB for a New Orleans-Panama route across the Gulf via Guatemala. New Orleans papers, envisioning their city as an international airport, played ball. Next morning the respected Times-Picayune ran a four-column map of the proposed route on page 1, slapped Ubico's picture in the middle, shouted...
...cuts two sides of terrific undisciplined jazzy Dinner For the Duchess and When I Get You Alone Tonight (BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know It (OREB). Band shows lots of promise, particularly...
...light trucks, Divco-Twin, unknown until three or four years ago, is breaking records with slow, low-powered, boxlike models for milkmen, bakery routes. This year's Divco line includes a refrigerated truck. Willys '41s look like converted passenger models, as do Hudson and Buick. Studebaker pioneered cab-over-engine design in 1937. It sold thousands of trucks to the Allies last winter. Tailing the procession are the buglike, tiny Crosley panel deliveries and pickups. Chief selling point: cent-a-mile operation...
...Harry F. Guggenheim (see p. 54}, chairman of the "Wings for Willkie" com mittee, achieved a low point in defense debate, confusing the civilian CAB's apprentice-pilot-training program with the wholly separate advanced training of com bat pilots and calling it "mass murder." The week's actual defense progress...
...CAB* made clear why it authorized the new line in spite of violent protests from Pan Am: When foreign nations begin competing for Atlantic airlanes, two U. S. air lines may come in handy. Great Britain announced last week that Airways Atlantic, Ltd., subsidiary of big British Overseas Airways Corp. which canceled its survey flights last October, would begin airmail & passenger service within 30 days from "somewhere in England" to New York City's LaGuardia Field-pending CAB approval...