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...native New Yorker, "Whitey" Willauer began his career as an admiralty lawyer, then moved into Government service as an investigator. In World War II he directed U.S. aid to the Far East, after V-J day stayed on to organize CAT airline with General Claire Chennault. Squeezed out of control of the line by financial troubles in 1950, he remained as president and vice-chairman of the board until three years ago, when he became Ambassador to Honduras. A powerfully built six-footer who once played fullback for Princeton, Willauer found few facilities for recreation in Tegucigalpa, took up skindiving...
...always amazes me to see the 'big names' who write TIME'S letters," wrote Canadian Reader Stan Obodiac of Yorkton, Sask. "One recent issue [Nov. 26], I believe, hit the alltime high: Ignazio Silone, Renata Tebaldi, Major General Chennault, Ed Sullivan, Floyd B. Odium, to name several...
Switch in Control. For years it looked as though Chennault's CAT would never get off the ground. Caught in China's civil war, it was the world's most shot-at airline, struggled to stay aloft as a civilian support organization for the retreating Nationalists armies. Profits were nonexist ent, payrolls tough to meet. But between 1946 and 1948, CAT flew the Nationalists out of some 72 threatened bases, in one operation evacuated 30,000 wounded soldiers from Manchuria ahead of the advancing Reds...
With Nationalist. China crumbling in 1948, Chennault loaded his Shanghai maintenance base onto a converted LST, fled first to Canton, then to Hainan, on to Hong Kong and finally across the Formosa Strait to Formosa, where CAT has stayed ever since. Flying along the perimeter of Red Asia, Chennault and CAT staked their entire future in 1949 on a coup to keep 71 planes of two Chinese national airlines from falling into Red hands. When the crews defected, leaving most of the transports at Hong Kong's airport, Chennault and his friends signed notes...
Paratroops & Passengers. Chairman Chennault can also take satisfaction from the fact that CAT's new management, headed by ex-Pan American Pilot George A. Doole Jr., vice chairman, has managed to turn his idea into a moneymaking operation. With a reputation for flying anything, anywhere, anytime, CAT was right on the spot flying charter flights for the U.S. Air Force during the Korean war, helped out during the fight for Dienbienphu in Indo-China, where CAT pilots buzzed through murderous antiaircraft fire to drop French paratroops, munitions and medical supplies. As a scheduled airline, 60% owned by Nationalist Chinese...