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Sixty miles west of Albany, an American Airlines DC-6, carrying 45 passengers from Boston to Syracuse, heard Albany Tower trying unsuccessfully to renew contact with Stultz. American's Captain Walter Moran, 46, a cool, methodical veteran pilot (14,000 hrs.), called the tower, offered the routine courtesy of relaying messages. From Albany Tower came the news...
...Says Moran: "The picture changed completely, from a routine effort at radio assistance to the possibility of a protracted search with little promise of success. For even if we did make contact, this young pilot would still have the problem of descending through the overcast without instruments...
...Moran is well known in Cadillac and Pontiac, Mich., and in the imperial palaces of the Orient. On the other hand, he has never been in Buyck or Austin, Minn...
...Moran has a beard like Lincoln that gives many people the willies. He is built in somewhat Goliath proportions and has the eye of an explorer, like De Soto...
...Moran was in Minneapolis promoting a contest to find 'The Happiest Girl in America' . . . The winner will receive a screen test and a new automobile, the maker of which is his sponsor...