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...took five hours to fly from Moscow to Helsinki in a Soviet DC-3. But I found myself in an atmosphere so hauntingly reminiscent of Europe in 1939 that I had the weird feeling that what I had really climbed into at Moscow's airfield was a Wellsian time machine which whisked me back nine years. There is the same excitement, of alternate pessimism and hopefulness, the same underlying feeling of a great overall drifting into disaster...
...Mellaha airfield in Libya, on the north coast of Africa, will soon be reopened as a U.S. base. Government officials reported last week that Britain, which administers the former Italian colony, has temporarily turned the base back...
Posted to an airfield on the hot central plain of Burma, Forrester had gone through the motions of living and flying with a sick savagery that made others think he was "around the bend." Then the Senior M.O. had taken him on an outing to a Burmese village. There he had met a pale girl of great beauty who spoke English and wore a blossom in her hair...
Good Hunting. Britain's Air Ministry tried an old remedy for collisions between R.A.F. planes and birds, which cost ?20,000 in repairs last year. It hired a Shropshire falconer to set his birds on plovers and rooks at one airfield. The falcons proved a "conditional success," are now being tried out on sea gulls at R.A.F. coastal stations...
...been rather quiet, arrived Virginia Hill, high-strung girl friend of the late Gangster Bugsy Siegel. Virginia had flown from France, where she had swung at a reporter and kicked at photographers. Police met her at New York and engaged her in private chitchat between planes. On the Miami airfield she told reporters she had nothing to say, and, between chomps on her gum, asked them if they didn't understand English. She then joined the police again. They took her to her classy island home in Biscayne Bay, where she settled down to enjoy the climate with hired...