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Santa Glaus & 5%. Many a Brazilian still preferred a flyer in Rio real estate, for a possible 200% profit, to Rockefeller's 5% projects. Others found it hard to believe that Rockefeller was not just trying to give away his money. Some xenophobes spread the story that the projects were just fronts for spying out oil deposits...
Guinea Pigs. One of McIndoe's first patients was a flyer named Paul Hart. Flames had burned away his nose; his cheeks were raw; his eyelids, eyebrows and chin were gone; his mouth was crushed to an ugly, gaping gash. Some 25 operations and 3½ years later, Paul had recovered his face. Today, he and his young wife are running one of the most prosperous bulb farms in England...
...doing so, he has made a name for him self as a flyer, author and textileman -pursuing his careers for fun as much as for profit...
...Nuts. The man who made the seagoing islanders among the most airminded people in the world is Stanley C. Kennedy, 58, the island-born, Stanford-educated president of the line. When he came home from World War I service as a Navy flyer, Stan Kennedy tried to get his father's Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co., for years the only inter-island freight and passenger carrier, to start an airline. Instead of 15 hours from Honolulu to Hilo, he argued, it would take only a few hours. Old James Kennedy, a hypercautious Scotsman, said nothing doing...
...Crosby; Dick Pinkham, new circulation manager; and August Heckscher, a new editorial writer. The new sports editor (also Yale '36) is curly-haired, gregarious Bob Cooke, who once did a sports column for the Yale Daily News, played right wing on the varsity hockey team, was an Army flyer (in B-26s) during the war. His first official act was to assign himself back to the Brooklyn Dodgers; Woodward had switched him this year to cover the New York Yankees...