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Another member of the fraternity, though unequipped with a pilot's license, spent several years flying passenger planes in Honduras and Nicaragua. Fired at length for letting his wife fly the plane, he persuaded two Managua operators known as The Baron" and "Wheeler the Dealer" to put up $1,500 for him to go to the States and buy them a brick-manufacturing machine. When last heard of, he had indeed bought the machine-and set up in business for himself with it in Miami...
...fewer, and the better ones came from abroad. Best of the lot, and the best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...
...chairman of Rolls-Royce, who became a baron seven months ago, still considers himself "only a mechanic." When he came to Rolls 42 years ago, fresh from secondary school and an apprenticeship in a machine shop, Hives was put to work at a bench in the Rolls plant. He showed such a talent for engineering that he quickly climbed the ladder to become head of Rolls's auto and air experimental station, later chief experimental engineer. Always one for seeing projects through from drafting board to trial run, Hives tested new engines by driving them in racing cars. During...
...animal a better birth-perhaps even human-in its next incarnation. The daily grind for U.S. Scholar Joseph Rock, who was chased out of China by the Reds and settled in Kalimpong, consists of work on a new system of spelling Tibet's tongue-twisting place names. Austrian Baron Rene Nebesky, who helps Rock, is boning up on Tibetan demonology...
...approached for Cambridge University to pick a new chancellor to succeed the late Jan Christian Smuts, hardly anybody expected a fuss. The heads of the various colleges were almost unanimously agreed on the man for the strictly honorary job: wiry, brilliant Arthur William, Baron Tedder, marshal of the R.A.F. and onetime deputy supreme commander of the cross-Channel invasion. The actual voting by the university senate (any Cantabrigian with an M.A. is eligible to vote) should have been, as always, a mere formality...