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...brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
Half an hour later came a radio telephone report: "HOLBROOK CALLING NEWARK. NOW OVER NEWBURGH. EVERYTHING OKAY." From Holbrook in NC 12354 no more was heard that day. Next morning, still missing, NC 12354 was the object of one of the greatest plane-hunts in U. S. aviation history. From New Jersey and New York went National Guard and commercial planes. From the U. S. S. Saratoga went two fleet Navy fighters. On roads and mountain byways roamed grey-clad State troopers. All that day and night and all next morning they hunted high & low in the rough Catskill Mountain...
...John Oleson was proudly wearing the title "loaning officer." Vice President since 1916, he directed the investment of bank funds, was able to accumulate sufficient cash before the bank holiday to meet withdrawals of 20% of the bank's deposits without outside help. Now 60, he succeeds Frederick Holbrook Rawson who re tired as chairman last August because of ill health. To fill the vacancies left by Messrs. Brown and Oleson, First National elevated two department vice presidents. One was James Berwick Forgan Jr., 44, son of the Bank's first chairman. He was also made a director...
Tuesday, March 27 has been announced as the date for the opening performance of the Hasty Pudding Show for 1934 in the Hasty Pudding Club House, Cambridge. Under the management of Matson Holbrook '35, the tryouts began yesterday. Official rehearsals for certain parts of the show were also begun under the direction of Alistaire Cooke, who is faced by a large group of prospective heroes and heroines. The title of the show has not yet been announced...
...Holbrook, Ariz...