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...airplanes and twenty members of the Flying Club will take off from Bedford Airport this weekend, bound for Martha's Vineyard to meet fellow pilot of the Brown Flying Club with a supersonic beer party...
...Flying Club uses Bedford Airport as a base, piloting mostly Avoids and Widgeons. One of the members is a licensed helicopter pilot and often files either of the two $25,000 helicopters at Bedford. Another pilot commutes to Wisconsin on Vacations; he claims that it's cheaper than going by train...
Hastings William Sackville Russell, twelfth Duke of Bedford, a pamphleteering pacifist and animal lover who once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...
...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...
Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...