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...Lock Haven, set up the Piper Aircraft Corp. Cub sales rose from 22 in 1931 to 687 in 1937, when Piper took over as the No. 1 U.S. light-plane maker. Piper got a tremendous boost from the war. More than 5,000 easily maneuverable Pipers served as reconnaissance, liaison and ambulance planes. They became known to G.I.s as "flying Jeeps" and to the Germans as "hell raisers" because bombing raids often followed their reconnaissance flights. Piper, like other small-plane makers, was shoved into the red after the war by the bust of the small-plane boom, but soon...
...most poignant self-deceit was in expecting a closer liaison with Shaw. He incessantly reminded her of the age difference. When G.B.S. was 90 and his wife Charlotte had died, the unteachable Molly proposed to live with him, and Shaw was scandalized: "The degradation to Literature, the insult to Charlotte's memory would be such that I should be justified in shooting you if there were no other way of preventing you from crashing my gates." Yet his last postcard to her a year before his death (she died last summer) is a bit of romantic doggerel ending with...
...Udall, who represented a congressional district which has more Indians (100,000) and this year got more federal aid than any other, can be expected to pump hard for public power, conservation and Indians. One of his key assignments in the new Administration: to serve as a Cabinet-level liaison man with Congress...
Attorney Clark M. Clifford, Kennedy's liaison man with the outgoing Eisenhower Administration; former Air Force Secretary Thomas Finletter; former Air Force Under Secretary Roswell Gilpatric; Manhattan Attorney Fowler Hamilton; Marx Leva, counsel to the late Secretary of Defense James Forrestal...
...none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk, and at the embassy piano listening to "Ernie" Bevin sing cockney ballads. It is by a thousand such little cinema frame snippets that Lady Diana's book gains value as a personal portrait...