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...autobiography of Britain's best literary critic as well as one of its wisest and sanest men of letters. Pritchett's elegant prose and range of knowledge might suggest that he is a product of a proud public school and Oxford. But in Volume 1, A Cab at the Door, he wrote of a decidedly lower-middle-class upbringing as the child of feckless and eccentric parents...
...first-rate commentator on fiction, still "gains no pleasure from serious reading that lacks a strong male thrust and a brutal intellectual content." Louis Auchincloss once paused in the course of a critical essay on Jean Stafford to express awe that she was resourceful enough to hail a cab...
Stage Line. Now the CAB is trying a different approach to serve smaller communities: strengthening the nation's 3,200 "third-level" carriers-the air taxis and commuter lines that usually fly smaller planes-Cessnas, Pipers, Beechcraft and the like. The third-levels fall into two groups: the 105 lines that provide scheduled round-trip service at least five days a week out of particular communities, and the 3,100 or so that offer less frequent scheduled service or simply hire themselves out irregularly for a motley of chores. The 105 scheduled lines observe stricter federal performance and safety...
...CAB is encouraging the third-levels to take over some of the regional lines' more unprofitable routes and to extend scheduled service into virgin territory. As a small start, CAB Chairman Secor Browne plans to ask Congress next month to authorize a $2,000,000-a-year experimental subsidy program for the scheduled third-levels. In return for subsidies, the lines would serve a number of "remote areas" to be designated by the CAB. If the program works, it will probably be expanded to other communities that lack air service...
...problem is money; it costs more to hire experienced pilots than inexperienced ones, and more to upgrade pilot skills. With CAB help, it may be possible eventually for a tiny unscheduled third-level like Winkle's Flying Service of Siwash, N.D., to attain the prestige and performance of a scheduled third-level like Maine's mighty Aroostook Airways...