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Moya Olsen Lear, now chairman of Lear Avia, is the inventor's fourth wife and the mother of four of his seven children. She was introduced to Lear by her father, Ole Olsen, who was half of the Olsen and Johnson comedy team. Despite Lear's well-known womanizing, they stayed married for 36 years. Moya concentrated on her needlepoint and listened to Lear's descriptions of his latest inventions. Once she stitched the names of her husband's girlfriends and presented the needlepoint to him in a frame. One name was in purple because...
...Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, 89 and now a bustling Florida realty tycoon, $450 million. No. 3: Ford Motor Co.'s President Henry Ford II, 39, $400 million. Tied for No. 4: Sun Oil Co.'s publicity-shy Board Chairman Joseph Newton Pew Jr., 70, and Avia-tionabob Howard Hughes, 51, $350 million each. No. 5: Texas Oilman Clint ("After the first hundred million, what the heck?") Murchison, 62, $300 million. Tied for No. 6: Pittsburgh's far-visioned Banking Heir Paul Mellon, 49, St. Louis's fun-loving Brewer (Budweiser) August A. ("Gussie") Busch...
...avis avia ac avital Henrik Ibisen Titcomb...
...explained, however, that Segndin avia is not only physically able to take the lead in education, art, painting, and music in Europe, but that the "inherited traditions of free thinking" of its universities qualify it to supplant France and Germany as the cultural center...
...less to run a Taylorcraft than to operate an automobile. . . . CAA records prove the safety ... 8 free hours flying instruction (enough to teach you to fly)." To airmen, who blow a gasket over such talk, this seemed the silliest ad of the month. It was not much worse than avia tion ads which have rosily pictured families flying off for weekends. But aviation buffs have learned to take such things well salted. Now, the booming light-plane in dustry is trying to sell planes, through department stores, to those who were never interested in them before. Were the planemakers...