Word: colliers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must navigate, search for ground targets, avoid enemy antiaircraft and watch out for enemy fighters. No pilot has enough hands, eyes and brains to do all these jobs perfectly. Last week the Air Force told how it had teamed up with William P. Lear, winner of the 1950 Collier Trophy for aviation, to take some of the job of flying and fighting the airplane off the jet pilot's neck...
...week before they were abruptly stopped. Digest Editor DeWitt Wallace and his staff had decided, after reading the late war news, to replace the lead article on MacArthur's Korean triumph titled "The Right Man in the Right Place." (About 4,000,000 copies had already been distributed.) Collier's, with a closing five weeks in advance of publication, could not do anything about its issue. To its 3,161,048 readers last week went an issue bearing a full-color cover picture of MacArthur smiling happily at Vice Admiral A. D. Struble over the streamer, "MacArthur...
Pickers for the Associated Press, International News Service and Look sidestepped by naming offensive and defensive All-Americas; the United Press and Collier's bucked straight ahead and picked a single, old-fashioned eleven. By this week, 43 players had been named to somebody or other's All-America. Only four-Ohio State Halfback Vic Janowicz, Oklahoma Tackle Jim Weatherall, Texas Guard Bud McFadin and Army End Dan Foldberg-made everybody's first-string...
Sportswriter Bill Fay yesterday published Collier's 61st A;-American football team. In the backfield are: Vite Parilli, Kentucky, Vis Janowicz, Ohio State, Kyle Rote, S.M.U. and Leon Heath, Oklahoma. The line consists of: Bill McColl, Stanford, Dan Foldberg, Army, Holland Donan, Princeto, Jim Weatherall, Oklahoma, Ted Daffer, Tenuessee, Bud McFadin, Texas, and 'Bob McCullough, Obio State...
...sold a three-installment article to Collier's detailing the adventures of the moviemaking safari...