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...Philadelphia, a small Cessna plane stood by to carry the pages to Idlewild Airport, where they were put aboard a flight scheduled to arrive in Paris early Thursday afternoon. Other page proofs were flown from Los Angeles to Honolulu and Tokyo, and from Idlewild to Miami, to be transferred to a chartered Pan American flight for Cuba. Stories were also cabled directly from the U.S. to Paris and Tokyo, as a safeguard against delays in air traffic. Buried in the mass of detail these arrangements involved, TIME Production Chief Bert Chapman confessed: "At a time like this, I carry...
Hall said he followed the Turnpike on his way to New York, when about 3:15 p.m. showers and fog began to make flying difficult. The two-seater Cessna plane was approaching the rise two miles before the Laurel Hill Tunnel (near Somerset), but the hill, surrounding mountains, and low clouds prevented Hall from climbing or turning around...
Youth for Christ International, which has sent earthbound missionaries to Europe and South America, last week appointed Paul Hartford, 37, its first official Flying Evangelist. Airman Hartford's first Y.C.I, mission will be to the Caribbean. His basic equipment: a two-seater Cessna, tracts and leaflets to be dropped from the air, a public-address system for use on the ground or even in low, circling flight, and a Spanish-speaking interpreter...
Although many a planemaker (including Piper, Cessna, Republic) denied it, the stockmarket decline and the slump in the luxury market had cut sales. Those who did admit it usually put the blame chiefly on lack of sufficient airports to take light planes out of the luxury class...
...kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...