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...probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt he had been thinking about for a long time...
Last week Zurakowski was doing slings for fun as part of routine test nights. None of his fellow pilots have yet managed Zura's trick, but they know it requires a plane with the proper wings to prevent it from rolling out of the skidding, cartwheel turn. It also needs the powerful thrust of the Meteor's two jets, set just the right distance apart. And it needs Zura's confident touch on the controls...
...Orly Airfield the temperature stood at 90° when Argentina's touring First Lady, dazzling in a white suit, white shoes, white handbag and a big white cartwheel hat, stepped out of a DC-4. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault came forward, bowed, kissed her hand. "On behalf of France," said he, "I welcome you warmly and affectionately." Then a motorcade whisked la belle blonde, as Parisians called her, to the Ritz...
...speech they liked the best was by red-haired Novelist Fannie Hurst, who rose majestically in a black cartwheel hat, a slinky black dress and an egg-sized, green-stoned ring. Her topic: "Politics and the Sleeping Beauty." Women, said she, "regulate their lives according to the male's ideas of the ideal of women's status ... according to a clock which does not move forward but eternally marks the hour-sex o'clock. . . ." She advised them to "gain dignity" by taking part in politics, running for Congress...
...Hollidge, Ltd. did a rush business on ostrich-plumed jobs at $65. Chicago's Bes-Ben sold all the floppy, fancy tuscan straws it could turn out at $52.75 and up. "Mmmm, but you'll look delicious," burbled Manhattan's Arnold Constable over a "high-crown cartwheel . . . with pastel blooms encased in spun, sugary net," all for $45. Macy's offered an open-crowned straw loaded with daisies...