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...Burbank, Calif, one day last week, a big shark-bodied plane rose from the Lockheed Air Terminal, circled out across the San Fernando Valley and headed east over the mountains. It was a notable event and a red-letter day for Pan American Airways: that was the first of the fleet of Lockheed Constellations for Pan Am's globe-girdling routes...
...prepared to answer as many as possible of your questions by first-hand reports. Information-expert Irene Burbank wore out two pairs of rationed shoes sightseeing every sight around New York herself. For example, she has taken the three-hour boat trip around Manhattan and can even tell you just how much poetic license was involved in describing the seats as "luxury liner deck chairs." She has also tested on her own palate and nerves the fare and entertainment of just about every eating place and night club in New York...
...come to us with some pretty odd requests. Quoting Miss Burbank...
Because of the war, the first one did not roll out of Lockheed's Burbank, Calif, plant until late in 1942, and it was for the Army. The Army liked it so well that it ordered 270 more. But Hughes and Frye had a chance to test the bird they had hatched. In the spring of 1944 they flew a Constellation across the continent in six hours, 58 minutes; another flew from New York to Paris in 14 hours, twelve minutes for the Army's Air Transport Command...
...Angeles' Burbank Theater was known to the trade as a "hoodoo house" when a lean, sandy-haired, 23-year-old manager named Oliver Mitchell took it over in 1899. Weaned in the theater as a "top stander" in a family acrobatic act called The Three Moroscos, Oliver assumed the name Morosco. He struck out for himself at the age of twelve, became assistant manager of a theater at 16. At 35, in the Burbank, he produced a musical hit, The Bird of Paradise...