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...grinned and clambered up to her seat. Two days later, Philip took stage center himself when the maharaja put on a tiger hunt. The first day neither the efforts of more than 100 beaters nor the lure of scores of staked-down bullocks and goats produced even a single cub. But on the second day a handsome, 9-ft. 8-in. tiger loped into sight...
Back home, the nonlovers realize suddenly how much they have missed, make a date one night to meet in a nearby town. Just as Hope is about to leave home, his wife reminds him that he has promised to take his son to a Cub Scout meeting. Furious, he drags the boy off, sits through an interminable report on Indian smoke signals, arrives for the date two hours late-too late to do anything but tool over to a drive-in theater. They settle down for some heavy necking, only to find that they are parked beside their mutual laundryman...
...turned out everything from a battle-dressed Leif Ericson, which the U.S. gave to Iceland, to George Washington on the arch in Manhattan's Washington Square. But the warm talent of the man is best seen in a statue of a chubby little boy that he called Man Cub. The stark-naked cub: the future mobilist...
Piper soon got interested. After the company went bankrupt during the Depression, he poured in his oil money to keep it going, learned to fly. He insisted that the company build a smaller, less expensive plane, presided over the creation of the first Cub. Price: $1,325. In 1936 Piper bought out Taylor, had hardly got started when the company's factory was destroyed by fire. Though only 5% insured. Piper said stoically: "At least we'll getm some publicity...
Borrowing money to start up again. Piper moved to an abandoned silk mill in Lock Haven, set up the Piper Aircraft Corp. Cub sales rose from 22 in 1931 to 687 in 1937, when Piper took over as the No. 1 U.S. light-plane maker. Piper got a tremendous boost from the war. More than 5,000 easily maneuverable Pipers served as reconnaissance, liaison and ambulance planes. They became known to G.I.s as "flying Jeeps" and to the Germans as "hell raisers" because bombing raids often followed their reconnaissance flights. Piper, like other small-plane makers, was shoved into...