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...British made Colonel Sweeney a reserve captain in R. A. F. to make it all pukka. They segregated the reckless Americans, rather than salt them into the conservative R. A. F. Among them are barnstormers, crop-dusters, stunt fliers, sportsmen. Youngest is Gregory ("Gus") Daymond, 19, of California, who used to fly an ice-cream king around South America. Oldest is Paul Joseph Haaren, 48, also of California, a movie flier. Most celebrated Eagle is Colonel Sweeney's nephew, wavy-haired Robert ("Bob") Sweeney, who won the British amateur golf championship in 1937 and lately squired Barbara Hutton Haugwitz...
TACA is the creation of 45-year-old, stocky, square-jawed Lowell Yerex, New Zealand flier in World War I. After the war, Yerex spent ten years barnstorming and selling automobiles in the U. S., then drifted south to Honduras with $25 and an old Stinson monoplane, went into business. His business: to haul anything anyplace in Central America a plane could land. He also managed to keep on the right side of the volatile Central American Governments, even did air fighting for Honduras against revolutionists. One day while he was strafing native troops, a rifle bullet smacked his head...
...flier recognized a mountain in the Harz range where he had spent a carefree vacation. "There is a legend about that mountain-something about a giant living on top of it-and I was telling the other chaps in my plane about it," he said. The chaps dropped bombs on the railroad which had carried him to his vacation...
...Amian was more pleased at the imminence of the new schedule last week than reticent, wiry, red-haired F. M. Blotner, Pan Am's Brazil operations manager. It had been his baby for nine years. An Ohio-born, World War I, U. S. Navy flier, he went to work for Pan Am in Cuba in 1929 after losing his shirt trying to operate his own airline between Miami and Nassau. Transferred to South America, he was struck by the absence of strong and prevailing winds, of storms, heavy rains and bad weather in interior Brazil. He sounded...
...Reno, waiting for her divorce decree, French Actress Swana Beaucaire went to a movie that changed her mind, wired Husband Clyde Pangborn, shy, soft-spoken round-the-world flier: "COME AND GET ME. I DON'T WANT A DIVORCE." He went...