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...Conrad is an even more remarkable man than your June 15 article indicates. Many years ago he tried to save a woman from walking into a turning propeller, suffered serious head injuries himself. It's still difficult for him to write, he talks hesitantly, yet has been gradually overcoming these handicaps out of sheer will power and determination...
...companies labeled an attempt to split off one of them and make a separate deal (as the union did with Bethlehem Steel Co. in 1949), McDonald asked for negotiations on an individual company basis. But the industry's team, headed by U.S. Steel's Executive Vice President Conrad Cooper, said it will not meet separately with the union's twelve local bargaining groups because it feels the only way to a contract is through top-level negotiations between the union and management four-man committees. If one thing emerged clearly last week it was that union...
...Conrad contemplated his growing family, concluded it would be easier to feed and educate them in Switzerland. Finding an inexpensive villa near Lausanne, he installed his family there and began making flying visits from Minnesota to Europe. In 1952 the family moved back to the U.S. and settled in San Francisco, but Conrad had learned to like the long hours of flight. He made profit out of pleasure by ferrying U.S. planes to distributors and customers in Europe. To while away the lonely hours, he composed songs in flight, chiefly to keep himself awake, became known as the "flying songwriter...
...Conrad took off from Casablanca last week with a whopping 5,000-lb. overall weight (the plane weighs 1,504 Ibs. empty). As his 500-gallon gas supply drained away, he throttled his engine back from 125 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., flew most of the way "right on the deck" in good weather at less than 500 ft. Conrad's only crisis came as he neared the coast of Texas, when he decided to drink some tea. "The Arabs put mint in it, and it had become rancid," he explained. "Boy, was I sick!" "Everybody likes to break...
...rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime of their lives and drew $10 a day. As the cameras rolled, Realist Stone pushed his 101 performers (including George Sanders, Edmond O'Brien, Robert Stack) through the paces of disaster. A grand piano plunged...