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...ever flown before in level flight. At Herne Bay, England, a Gloster Meteor jet plane, piloted by Group Captain H. J. ("Willie") Wilson, 37, of the R.A.F. made four 70-mile runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good old Willie...
...ease their burning necks, ten members of the Anglo-American Correspondents Association decided to make a formal, Dutch-uncle protest to the Government. The idea came from Canadian-born Eric Downton of Reuters, president of the Association, who arrived in Moscow four months, ago, after wartime service as a lieutenant on a Canadian corvette on Atlantic convoy. Brooks Atkinson, an old censor fighter, helped polish the protest. Every member of the Association, including Anna Louise Strong, approved the unanimous protest, which was addressed and sent to Foreign Commissar Viacheslav M. Molotov. Excerpts...
When he abdicated, Hays' successor to the reported $200,000-a-year job had long since been chosen. He was the darling of U.S. free enterprise: handsome, grinny Eric Allen Johnston, 48. He will go to work immediately, but will keep his job as President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce until...
...Peace? The Administration had apparently expected something more rational. Only last spring the C.I.O. News trumpeted: "IT'S INDUSTRIAL PEACE FOR THE POSTWAR PERIOD!" Labor Leaders Phil Murray and William Green and the Chamber of Commerce's Eric Johnston had promised: "Management-labor unity . . . must be continued in the postwar. To this end, we dedicate our joint efforts." But the National Association of Manufacturers had not joined in, and such fine words had buttered no parsnips...
Oldtime Vienna correspondents knew sharp-featured George Eric Rowe Gedye (rhymes with steady) as a cool little Englishman, always reserved and distantly polite, who could write with startling passion of his love (Austria) and his hate (the Nazis). Last week they caught the Gedye touch in London Daily Herald pieces pleading that unless the Allies acted, Vienna would starve within 30 days...