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...lightning flared from cloud to cloud as United Airlines Cleveland-bound Flight 521, 44 passengers, four crew, trundled away from the LaGuardia Field ramp on the eve of Memorial Day. As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways-No. 13 or No. 18.* He picked the shortest, No. 18; it was only 3,533 feet long but it pointed directly into the brisk, 18 m.p.h. south wind...
Coming Home. With responsibility thrust upon them, a number of names of growing importance emerged from the G.O.P. Among them were Colorado's Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; New York's Ives and Connecticut's Raymond Baldwin, who had also forced the hierarchy into paying attention to freshmen. One man who continued to grow in political stature was Arthur Vandenberg. One man who had learned something was the Senate's boss in domestic matters, Bob Taft. He had learned that warm human beings are not as easy to manipulate as cold figures...
...under arms; this costs the world about $27,400,000,000 a year, not counting what is spent on atomic and other secret research. These figures are the conclusion reached after a worldwide survey conducted by the New York Times under direction of its able Military Editor Hanson W. Baldwin. He believes that despite the disappearance of Germany and Japan as military powers, there are more soldiers today than...
...JOHN BALDWIN...
Connecticut's Senator Raymond Baldwin, who happened to be presiding, recognized the gallery immediately-with an order to clear it. But before Citizen Brooks Washburn, a well-heeled, 32-year-old Portland, Ore. war veteran, went down under the hammer locks of Capitol police, he addressed the chair again. "Mr. President," he yelled with muffled frenzy, "these men are bothering...