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Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...
Karachi had changed and grown since then, but it was still dirty, noisy and in all respects unlovely. Americans got to know the town during the war when it was a main air transport point...
...time Pilot J. Nelson Pell was over Boston, on a charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...defines himself as a parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...
Muddling Through. To cope with the problem, BOAC last month sent in a new team. In as chairman, replacing Lord Knollys (rhymes with coals), went 68-year-old Sir Harold Hartley, famed chemist and transportation expert who had managed Britain's aviation gasoline program in World War II. As his managing director, Sir Harold got young (34), handsome Whitney Straight,* ex-R.A.F. pilot and commodore in Britain's Transport Command. Born in the U.S., Straight has lived in England since he was 13. He became a British subject and in his 20s he founded the Straight Corp...