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...suffered as a boy of ten in the Czarist city of Kiev. As he sat with cold compresses on his neck and waited miserably for his veins to close, he fell prey to an alarming thought: if his condition became chronic, he might never be able to become a flyer. One night a little later he dreamed of coursing the skies in the softly lit, walnut-paneled cabin of an enormous flying machine?a cabin he recognized with a start 30 years later when he went aboard one of his own four-engine Sikorsky Clippers to inspect...
Later, in Burma, where he served as a squadron commander in Colonel Philip Cochran's famed Air Commando Group, Harman chalked up another first. in helicopter history. He made the world's first military helicopter rescue, bringing out three British soldiers and an American flyer who had crashed in the jungle...
...world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...
Died. Harold Knutson, 72, longtime Republican U.S. Representative from Minnesota (1917-49); of a heart ailment; in Wadena, Minn. Norwegian-born, he succeeded Charles A. Lindbergh, father of the flyer, in Congress, cast his first vote in 1917 against a declaration of war on Germany, was a leading isolationist before and after Pearl Harbor, stoutly fought the Democrats and all their works on almost every issue,* including the easing of immigration restrictions...
...triangle. He sewed up the grand championship for himself by whooshing the distance at an average speed of 35.8 m.p.h., a French record for his class of glider. Unable to speak German, Pierre grinned his gratitude on being awarded the top trophy. "Pierre is an excellent and very clever flyer," said Germany's Runner-Up Ernst Haase. Then he added thoughtfully: "And we are a little out of practice...