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...presidential plane Columbine III was ready, after weeks of test flights, to carry Ike and his party to a Thanksgiving holiday* at the Augusta, Ga. National Golf Club. Before takeoff, Mamie Eisenhower christened the new Super-Constellation in a brief ceremony at Washington's National Airport, using, instead of the traditional champagne, a soda bottle full of water from Colorado's north fork of the South Platte River (a favorite presidential trout stream...
...Carolina, the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser's Editor Grover Hall Jr. invited his fellow passenger to share a seat. Hall's recollections of this chance encounter with Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, 59, provided Advertiser readers with an unusual portrait: "As the plane revved up for the takeoff, the Bishop crossed himself . . . The editor observed the Bishop's supplication with satisfaction, considering that the plea for the safety of the ship's company was in uncommonly eloquent and influential hands . . . Airborne, Sheen deftly ripped off his collar and laid it upon his knee . . . We asked...
...massive form which he called Architectural Harmony. France's Georges Braque's facial silhouettes on a blue salad bowl were clumsy. But the U.S.'s Alexander Calder's finely drawn glass wire twisted into a bird form intriguingly suggested a pigeon in a jato takeoff. Pablo Picasso's heavy-handled vase embossed with a red-and-black cartoon face (Burlesco) was good fun. And Italy's Renato Guttuso. who designed a pitcher shaped like the face of a snarling, shark-toothed buffoon, happily wedded design and medium...
...Moffett Field, near San Francisco, the Convair XFY-1 last week made its first public test flight, inside a blimp hangar. Nicknamed "the Pogo Stick," the XFY-1 is the Navy's vertical-takeoff fighter. Standing upright on the tips of its delta wings and two big vertical stabilizers, the odd craft was tethered by six cables to control it, if necessary...
...Cover) Outside a tidy hangar just northwest of Palm Beach's International Airport hangs a neatly lettered sign: PRIVATE KEEP OUT. The rest of the sign, if the busy men inside bothered to spell it out, could read: SPORTSMEN AT WORK. Inside, periodically deafened by the takeoff thunder of DC-6s and Globemasters, crews of men in blue coveralls worked lovingly this week over three low-silhouette (40 inches) automobiles with an arresting look of sleek power...