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...Civil Aeronautics Authority yesterday cancelled its 14 hour search for William S. Tyson '49 when it was reported that the flyer had landed his, light plane successfully in an emergency stop at El Campe, Texas...
...friends and admirers as one of the two most brilliant men in the active Navy. The other is 53-year-old Forrest Sherman, who, as CNO (Chief of Naval Operations), holds the Navy's top job. Sherman is also a carrier admiral-in fact, the first Navy flyer to become...
Pilot Proctor turned in his company manuals, collected his paycheck ($13,000 a year) and logged his day's flight for the last time. "I don't want to quit flying," he admitted. "No flyer ever will." But Heath Proctor, who had watched the airlines graduate from a risky adventure to a workaday routine, had passed his 60th birthday-the first man on any U.S. airline ever to reach retirement age while still a pilot...
...Secretary of the Air Force. The logical choice was the man who headed the President's Air Policy Commission in 1947 and produced the report recommending a 70-group Air Force. Last week the President nominated bald, sharp-eyed Thomas Knight Finletter for the job. Never a flyer himself, 56-year-old Tom Finletter comes from a socialite Philadelphia family and is a Manhattan corporation lawyer, a United World Federalist, an avid student of history and an expert in international economics. When appointed to the Air Commission, he knew little about air power but he impressed all comers with...
...Malenkov's parental and class origins hardly anything is known. He was born on Jan. 8, 1902 in Orenburg, since renamed Chkalov in honor of the famed Soviet flyer who in 1937 hopped over the North Pole to the U.S.* His father was presumably a Cossack subaltern. Orenburg, on the southern flank of the Urals, where Europe meets Asia, was in those days a terminal for camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings...