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...trainer of race horses was interrupted when one day, in the person of Pilot Tom Black, famed African longdistance flyer, she met "Destiny with pliers in his hand." Tom Black taught Beryl to fly. She became a free-lance pilot, adept in all the lordly and dangerous aerial perspectives of an abstruse continent, which she often superbly implies but seldom traps in words. She was, so far as she knows, the first woman to fly the mails in Africa. She was certainly the first human being to scout for elephants...
...Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter of the buildings and extensively damaging the rest. The British believed that Focke-Wulf fighter output had suffered a crippling cut, enough to repay them for the 85 British planes lost...
...Aerial Thumbs. Army peacetime flying had been a model of sanity and caution. In the decade ending last spring the accident rate had been steadily shaved, but it had been inching up ever since the training-expansion program began. Only a few of the accidents were fatal. Seventy per cent were minor, mostly on training fields-pilots and student pilots telescoped their landing gears in hard touchdowns or chewed up wingtips in groundloops...
...romantic poetry. "It was exciting to hear Winston Churchill recite Shakespeare. On and on his sonorous voice rolled. He was acting the part now. He was Hamlet, and not a word in a long passage did he miss." Reynolds got a great kick out of London's worst aerial blitz, writes his report of it in semi-cablese: . . . THE BLITZ WAS AT ITS VERY HEIGHT AND MORE THAN ONCE THE BIG SAVOY SHOOK UNDER THE PARAGRAPH QUOTE EYE WONDER HOW MANY OF US WILL BE ALIVE IN THE MORNING UNQUOTE A WOMAN SAID CALMLY STOP WE LOOKED...
...Edward M. Chase Prize of $200 for the best essay on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace, was won by Bernard Fensterwald, Jr. '42, of Nashville, Tenn., for his essay "The Politics of Aerial Disarmament...