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...mishaps. In 1949 he had survived when his speeding car crashed through a bridge in northern Florida, plunged into a canal, killing his second wife and her mother. Twice in peacetime he had been forced to parachute from airplanes; during World War II he crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico...
Montana. In Montana, where Senators are usually liberal Democrats, the Governor as often as not is a middle-of-the-road Republican. Plodding, unspectacular Donald Nutter, 44, seems to be a typical G.O.P. statehouse product. A war hero (B24 piloting in the China theater) turned small-town tractor salesman, stocky, cigar-smoking Don Nutter served two workhorse terms in the state senate, in the process developed from a cautious reactionary to a conscientious, business-minded liberal with a host of friends and supporters throughout the state...
...fall of 1942 he stepped into a B24, flew it out into the North Atlantic seeking the worst weather "front" that he could find. His plane picked up a load of ice, lost flying speed and dropped into a spin. Fritz, a veteran airline pilot, straightened her out just a few hundred feet from the water. He came back still convinced that he was right. He was handed the job of proving his point as C.O. of the North Atlantic Division...
Service Heroes. Thousands of miles from warehouses and the parts they needed, the service crews of the A.S.C. have made do with what they had. They have worked without shelter in an Arctic gale, twisting hundreds of little screws to replace a broken wing spar on a B24. When tools were lacking, they made their...
...Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more by Consolidated boats have become commonplaces, as they have long been in the U.S. Navy...