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Dieudonné Costes, French flyer who made news in 1930 with a transatlantic flight, made it again in Manhattan by posing as a Nazi agent and capturing a real one (one Paul Jean Marie Cavaillez). Forced to join the German intelligence service in 1942, Costes went to Spain, told all to United Nations officials and went on from there...
...Knocked unconscious by his jump, Cole awoke in a monastery where he was silently waited on for three days by monks sworn to perpetual silence. Finally he was driven back to his base by a non-silent, keenly airminded monk who began questioning him closely about the air war. Flyer Cole said that his robed driver was ex-Flyer Fonck...
...hope invested in the San Francisco conference and war's meaning to a child are well illustrated in this composition written by a ten-year-old girl for a school assignment. This child lost her father, a naval flyer, two years ago. How this is reflected is to me significant...
...University of California in 1923 (he had been an un spectacular two-letter man: football, crew). As an independent, he battled the big oil companies for a time on production allotments and in price wars, managed to make himself a sizable business. In 1932, he set off on a flyer in politics, by 1936 was an active and aggressive Democratic party worker...
...prestige had increased. One by one the perverse paladins of the Nazi inner circle gathered around him: ¶ Hermann Goring, the former flyer and drug addict...