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Like Benny. Last week, for instance, taping the final effort of the season (to be aired April 21), Dean gunned his Dual Ghia into the parking lot of NBC studios in Burbank at noon. He spent the first hour or so goofing around with his musical director. At 1 p.m., the dancers and Guest Stars Liberace, Comedienne Dorothy Loudon and Tanya the Elephant were brought together for the first time. It was not exactly a dry run with Dean. For one thing, Dean didn't bother to take part; for another, he was breaking out the dressing-room bottle...
...Burbank, Calif...
...Lockheed ran into the U.S. Neutrality Act, which forbade either U.S. or British citizens to ship or fly the planes from the U.S. to Britain. Court Gross helped devise a stratagem. Lockheed bought a wheat farm on the North Dakota-Canada border, flew its bombers there from the Burbank assembly line, hitched them to teams of horses. The horses, supposedly not subject to the laws of man, drew the planes across the boundary. Canadians unhitched the animals, let British pilots ferry the aircraft on to England...
During the war, Court Gross went to Burbank as Lockheed's general manager, showed his executive ability by unscrambling the production tangles sometimes left by his brother's impulsive decisions. At war's end, Lockheed stayed aloft because it was ready not only with the four-engine Constellation, which ran away with the first round of airline orders, but with the U.S.'s first jet fighter, the F80 Shooting Star, which provided the basic design for so many later models that Lockheed engineers nicknamed it "Old Hodgepodge...
...only keeps a 22-man Washington team circulating among the Pentagon, NASA, the FAA and Capitol Hill, but deals with 300 separate offices and agencies of Government through 17 sales offices across the U.S. Representatives at every NASA installation and most major military bases teletype weekly reports to Burbank on what hardware these key customers are likely to want next. To sell abroad, Lockheed has created a "foreign service corps" that includes many influential Europeans. The company hired the Duke of Edinburgh's equerry, for instance, to help sell the C-130 Herky Bird to the British, landed orders...