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...ground-controlled approach) equipment for blind landings. At Berlin's Tempelhof Airdrome, two of Gilfillan's G.C.A. units are bringing in Allied transports through all kinds of weather. At Gander, Newfoundland, G.C.A. is guiding in U.S. Air Force and commercial planes. At New York's La Guardia Field, Chicago's Municipal Airport, and Washington's National Airport, G.C.A. approaches are routine in thick weather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Through the Fog | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...named in honor of the late Fiorello La Guardia: streets in Tel Aviv, Lyon, and Wroclaw, Poland, a hospital in Foggia, Italy, and a school in Prague...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bows | 8/23/1948 | See Source »

...loved to goggle at the late Fiorello La Guardia, a squat fire hydrant of a man who gushed forth sympathy, abuse and ideas on everything under the neon lights. India, without the help of the kind of press that spread the Hat's fame, is learning to pay the same kind of attention to Premier Nehru. He is the nurse and guardian of modern India, orphaned at birth by the death of its father, Gandhi, and the banishment of its mother, the British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Some Sort of King | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Supina landed at La Guardia Field, stepped out and waited to be arrested. When nobody showed up to seize him, Supina was somewhat embarrassed because he had no bus fare. He borrowed some cash, made his way to Connecticut and waited patiently while what the press described as a "manhunt" went on. The next day he walked disgustedly into a newspaper office and gave himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Hallucinations | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

John Barrymore Jr., 16, continued on his way to Los Angeles after a slight delay at La Guardia Airport. Stepfather Dr. John Vruwink, in the dark himself, had asked police to find out whither John was bound. Police picked him out by the profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

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