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...neatest Communist maneuvers of the Chinese civil war was pulled off in November 1949 at Hong Kong's airfield, where 82 Nationalist transport planes had been flown in to presumed safety. Subverted by agents, most of their Chinese crews defected to the Reds. They grabbed eleven of the planes and took off for Mao's mainland. Hong Kong authorities announced that British recognition of the Communist government-then expected momentarily-would automatically give the Reds possession of the remaining 71 planes by right of inheritance. It was strange logic, explainable only by Hong Kong's greedy haste...
...Detroiter blinked at the big red lettering on the card: EN CAS D'ACCIDENT. After a blank for his name & address: Citoyen américain, je désire être transporté d'urgence à I'hôpital américain de Paris. The visitor filled in his name and hotel address, tucked the card into his wallet, and stepped briskly out into the warm, exciting Paris night to take his chances with wine, women and the world's wildest motorists. The Detroiter, and thousands like him, felt a bit more secure just...
Early Career: Practiced law in Whittier, 1937-42. For seven months, attorney with Washington's Office of Emergency Management, working to unify U.S. rationing rules. Commissioned in Navy, 1942, lieutenant (j.g.). Served in South Pacific as ground officer for Combat Air Transport Command, 1943-44; commended by Secretary of Navy for administrative work after V-J day; discharged as lieutenant commander...
...Said the Journal: "He was not wounded in action, nor did he suffer a burned and broken foot in an airplane accident on June 22, 1943, as he has said. Instead he was hurt in a hilarious 'shellback' initiation on that date. It occurred when a Navy transport en route to combat areas but without a single dangerous alert during its entire voyage was the scene of the riotous gaiety traditional to crossing the equator...
Seaboard's fast climb has been piloted by two brothers: Raymond (35) and Arthur (38) Norden.* Born in New York, both learned to fly in the Navy, later served in the Army Transport Command, where they learned enough about cargo flying to be enthusiastic about its future. With $80,000 from relatives and friends, and $200,000 from banks, they started Seaboard in 1946 with two surplus C-54s. Quipped Art Norden: "If you have one plane, you're a pilot; if you have two, you're an airline." In 1947, Seaboard grossed $269,000, made...