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...Anglo-American squabble over transatlantic commercial flying was apparently laid to rest last February by the Bermuda air agreement (TIME, Feb.11). But last week its ghost was walking. The Senate's Commerce Committee held that the agreement was illegal and void. Its reason: the State Department and Civil Aeronautics Board had no right to make international commitments; "such arrangements . . . should be regarded as treaties, subject to ratification by two-thirds vote of the Senate...
Married. Bryan M. ("Bitsy") Grant, 35, former Davis Cupper; and Marie Cleveland, 35, no tennis player; in Atlanta. Bitsy took his bride and three rackets on a honeymoon to Florida and Bermuda...
Flying down to Rio, and everywhere in Latin America, was faster and more comfortable than ever. Mexico, prime goal of U.S. wartime travelers, was busier than ever-and higher priced than ever, like every place else. Bermuda was again only three hours from Manhattan by plane (round trip fare $126), or 72 hours by Furness Withey's 100-passenger ships (roundtrip fare: $80-200). The Monarch of Bermuda would not be sailing again till...
Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Tory newspaper tycoon (Daily Express circulation, 3,442,366), hopped to the U.S. en route to Bermuda, behaved for all the world like a newspaper-hater. At LaGuardia Field newsmen got a quick "no comment" brushoff. The New York Times, which knows dignity when it sees it, headlined: LORD BEAVERBROOK ARRIVES, IN SILENCE...
...Bermuda air conference the U.S. had agreed to let I.A.T.A. set rates (TIME, Feb. 11). In doing so, the U.S. had dubiously swallowed fears that this might cartelize world airlines on a high-fare basis. So I.A.T.A.'s first fare-fixing was not reassuring. In June, when it meets again, it will try to set permanent rates based on actual operating costs...