Word: flyer
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...young, exploiting an amusing (if familiar) situation for comedy, farce and romance alike, and framing it in the fat plush of family life. A teen-age brat named Miriam Wilkins (Lenore Lonergan) has long and lushly corresponded-in the name of her older sister Ruth-with a young overseas flyer. Suddenly the flyer (John Dall) turns up, all set to marry Ruth-who is all set to marry someone else. To soften the blow, Ruth (Virginia Gilmore) agrees to act out for a little the role that Miriam has cast her in. It starts off all innocent merriment, but winds...
Debt Played When Wing Commander John Wooldridge shot down his fifth German plane, the next move was up to Conductor Artur Rodzinski. The New York Philharmonic's genial maestro had made a promise: to give the 33-year-old R.A.F. flyer's new symphony, which he showed Rodzinski last spring, one performance for every five enemy planes bagged (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week the bargain was fulfilled: the Philharmonic played the premiere of Commander Wooldridge's Solemn Hymn for Victory-and the Wing Commander appeared in person to take his bows. Critics and audience agreed that...
...British plane doggedly making the rounds of patrol off Iceland in 1941 sighted an enemy submarine. The plane made a run, dropped depth charges, circled to watch results. Suddenly the submarine surfaced and to the flyer's surprise quickly ran up a white flag (later found to be the commander's shirt). The U-570 was boarded by the British, found virtually undamaged...
...time revolution raged in Brazil. Santos-Dumont's body was embalmed by one Dr. Walther Haber-feld, who removed the heart. When political order was restored, the aviator was buried in Rio. Dr. Haberfeld offered the heart to the flyer's family, but they would have none of it. The story was told to Dr. Paulo da-Rocha Gomide, advertising manager of Panair do Brasil (Pan American Airways' Brazilian subsidiary). Quick to see the chance for a graceful bow to the memory of Brazil's most famed airman, he persuaded the Government to accept...
Behind the Dixie Flyer's tender were two baggage cars and 14 coaches. In the first three coaches rode 75 Army Air Forces pilots, gunners and radiomen. Most of them had flown dangerous missions over Italy, had earned and spent 30 days at home in the U.S. Now, assigned to duty in the U.S., they were bound for Miami. Before they went to bed, they yelled, sang, talked with a luxurious feeling of safety about bombing raids. The crash that sent their sleepers rolling into the soybean fields beside the track killed 25 of them within seconds...