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...found time for everyone. Round-the-world Flyer Milton Reynolds and crew (see BUSINESS) came by to receive the President's congratulations and give him a Reynolds ball-point pen. Democratic bigwigs dropped in to talk politics. Said Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague: "Everything's fine-everything's lovely...
...Chicago, the once adored Vagabond Lover took a flyer at a nightclub comeback, though he didn't call it that ("You can't come back from where you haven't been"). Unlike Oldtimer Al Jolson, Rudy Vallee hadn't learned that his future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy-but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or act 45. I try to keep my stuff up-to-date. Nostalgia doesn't mean much...
...still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace of an ordeal ... which stripped you of all that was not intrinsic, you discovered a mysterious creature born of yourself. . . . Man does not die. . . . What man fears is himself...
...Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness by the R.A.F. pilot (who at least respects a fellow flyer, whatever his country's regime) than by the men of the Breadwinner...
...Flyer who runs an aviation taxi service around the world...