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...aviatress who can not fly (Ben K. Kawaller ’07), a playboy musician (Justin V. Rodriguez ’07), a sexy marine biologist (Peter A. Dodd ’06), and sultry genie Juana Rubme (David J. Andersson ’09), to the pot, and it is pretty hard to single out the culprit...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Yacht Hits the Spot' | 2/27/2006 | See Source »

Saund defeated Republican Jacqueline Cochran Odium, who was herself born in abject poverty. She rose to fame as an aviatress, and to wealth as the wife of Financier Floyd Odium and as a highly successful businesswoman (cosmetics). But during the flamboyant campaign, some voters decided that high-flying Jackie Cochran was trying to dazzle her way into public office. Others resented the fact that after years of aloofness she had become neighborly only during her campaign. "Saund," said one, "is at least one of us. Mrs. Odium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Living Proof | 11/19/1956 | See Source »

...aptly named Thermal airport, where a sleek Lockheed Lodestar sat warmed up and ready for flight. She fastened herself expertly into the pilot's seat; seconds later Jacqueline Cochran Odium. 47, an orphan who vaulted from a Tobacco Road childhood to interna tional fame as an aviatress, businesswoman (cosmetics) and the wife of Financier Floyd Odium, was flying south. It was another day in her nonstop campaign for Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Jackie & the Judge | 10/8/1956 | See Source »

...airplane pilot, and the wife of Multimillionaire Floyd Odium. After her marriage, Jackie's career (or careers) soared upward like a jet plane. As the head of her own nationally known cosmetics firm, she is a keen and successful business woman. As the U.S.'s No. 1 aviatress, she has won scores of awards, set dozens of records, was the first woman to break through the sound barrier. During World War II she headed the women pilots' ferrying service, the WASPs. As Mrs. Floyd Odium she is a social leader, a world traveler, the friend of celebrities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Made in America | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since Katy, the Waitress, Became an Aviatress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Airy Collector | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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