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...TIME cover, July 27, 1953). Competing in his first formal race since a 1956 heart attack, Investment Banker Shields worked up to part-time captain by stages-first by skippering her trial horse Nereus, then advising from Columbia's tender, finally plotting strategy from the boat's cockpit for regular Helmsman Briggs Cunningham, topflight yachtsman, longtime sports-car designer and racer (TIME cover, April...
...sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them to "stay on my tail." Few could. Invariably. he sat in his cockpit eating an apple as a gesture of contempt for his foe, almost invariably evaded his pursuer before the apple was eaten...
Contrasts. Though both are sons of old racing drivers, there the similarity ends. Mike Hawthorn drives in devil-may-care style, his husky frame hunched over in the cramped cockpit, a grim scowl on his face. Moody Mike enjoys his cigarettes and whisky, cuts loose occasionally on the trumpet (which he plays with some skill), flies his own plane. He drives solely to win, cares little about how he accomplishes it ("I haven't bloody well got a driving style"). Hawthorn started racing motor bikes as a teen-ager in Farnham, Surrey, where his father ran a garage. Driving...
...Injun. In El Monte, Calif., Charles K. Lacouran complained to sheriff's deputies that the pilot of a private plane dived at him, leaned from the cockpit and hurled an arrow that narrowly missed him, stuck and quivered in the ground at his side...
Dodging in and out of fluffy cumulus clouds, a Maryland Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer frisked around above the green valleys of Maryland and northern Virginia on a routine flight. In the cockpit was the pilot, Captain Julius R. McCoy, 34, of the Maryland Air National Guard, and his passenger Donald Chalmers, 26, Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital...