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Flying a Canadian-built F-86 Sabre jet, Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran whooshed to another pair of speed records over Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. After clocking 590.273 m.p.h. around a 12-pylon, 500-kilometer course and 670 m.p.h. in a straight 15-kilometer dash, Jacqueline pronounced the Sabre a safer plane, and easier to fly, than the prop-driven fighters of World...
Divorced. By Ruth Elder. 47, aviatrix of the '20s who made a well-publicized but unsuccessful bid in 1927 to become the first woman to fly the Atlantic (the first: Amelia Earhart, in 1928): sixth husband Ralph King, 54, cinema cameraman; after 1½ years of marriage; in Los Angeles, after she testified that he called her "a grey-headed old bag" and said he "wanted a young chick...
...Manhattan, the 1952 Harmon International Aviation Awards were announced. Aviatrix: Jacqueline Auriol, daughter-in-law of the President of France, for setting the women's speed record-509 m.p.h.-in a jet fighter. Aviator: Pan American World Airways Captain Charles F. Blair Jr., the first man to fly a single-engine fighter plane nonstop across the North Pole. Aeronaut: Lieut. Carl J. Seiberlich, U.S.N., for developing new techniques in the use of low-flying airships...
...White House rose garden, President Truman presented the Harmon international aviation trophy, topnotch aviation award, to the outstanding aviator, aviatrix and aeronaut of the past decade: Lieut. General James H. Doolittle, wartime boss of the Eighth Air Force, leader of the first Tokyo raid; Jacqueline Cochran, wartime head of WASP, and dirigible expert Vice Admiral Charles E. Rosendahl (retired), wartime chief of Naval Airship Training...
Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...