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...noon the loudspeakers at Frankfurt's field blared out the official score: 652 flights had carried 5,582.7 tons of coal. It was a new airlift record-by 154 flights and 1,652.4 tons.* Said Airman Second Class Reuel McCafferty, who did five shuttle trips: "If the Russkies ain't convinced by now, I guess they never will...
Died. Frederick Walker Baldwin, 66, pioneer Canadian airman, first British Empire subject to fly an airplane (March 12, 1908), onetime associate of Inventor Alexander Graham Bell; of a heart attack; in Baddeck...
General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, who retired recently after 32 years as an Army airman, ten months as Air Force Chief of Staff, roared off into a new wild blue: military and air consultant for Newsweek...
...Airman-Movieman Howard Hughes, who claims that the United Aircraft Corp. was responsible for his near-fatal plane crash two years ago (their propellers were faulty, he charges), set a value of $250,000 on the damages to himself, $238,000 on damages to his Hughes Tool...
...Letter to a Hostage, Airman Antoine de St. Exupery (missing in action, 1944) feels "so weary of controversy, of the opinionated, of fanaticism" that only one small ray of comfort remains in his heart-a memory of times when he exchanged smiles with people. In A Man and a Woman, Louis Guilloux described a quarrel between a businessman and his wife-a quarrel which is hair-raising precisely because it is caused by nothing but sheer boredom. In his two contributions, Jean-Paul Sartre, France's latest light-o'-letters, fills his fountain pen with embalming fluid...