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Precisely 45 minutes later, another B-52 set down at Baltimore: in 31½ hours it had hurtled 16,000 nonstop miles (with aerial refueling) from Castle Air Force Base, Calif, to Goose Bay, Thule, the North Pole, Anchorage, Seattle, San Francisco and across the U.S. to Baltimore...
...fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan who vaulted from a Tobacco Road childhood to interna tional fame as an aviatress, businesswoman (cosmetics) and the wife of Financier Floyd Odium, was flying south. It was another day in her nonstop campaign for Congress...
Died. Colonel David Carl Schilling, 37, World War II European Theater ace (24 German planes in air fights and 10½ by strafing), who in 1950 made the first nonstop Atlantic jet crossing; when his car skidded into a bridge near the U.S. Air Force Base at Mildenhall, England...
Capital bought the Viscounts in 1954 because it had to have planes that could match the big, swift DC-6s and DC-7s of its rivals on the crowded New York-Washington-Chicago routes. Yet because it has few long, nonstop hauls, Capital could not operate big planes as economically as other lines. The medium-range Viscount seemed to be the answer, although, as the first foreign-made plane to fly in U.S. airlines, there was a question how it would stand...
Hickest of the Hick. During the day, as Author Charles Angoff makes clear in a book that is really a nonstop conversation piece, Mencken's vice was word-intoxication. Profane, scatological and childishly bigoted, Mencken uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader...