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...make a left-hand turn toward the southeast and Idlewild's Runway 13, it ran into a patch of drifting cloud which obscured visibility. Its captain, 27-year-old William B. Crockett Jr. of Fort Lauderdale (who was alone in the plane with his 29-year-old copilot and fellow townsman Jack L. Woerderhoff), was directed to pull up, and begin another approach...
Fright & Anger. When the flames were finally out, five were dead-the pilot, copilot, two men smashed in the crumpled houses and a police inspector whose automobile was crushed, half a block away, by a flying piece of wreckage. Ten people had to be hospitalized. Dozens of others nursed minor burns and wounds. Five houses were wrecked. Two dozen automobiles were damaged...
David Wayne plays Songstress Froman's first husband, Don Ross, and Rory Calhoun is cast as John Burns, the Lisbon Clipper copilot who rescued her from the Tagus River after the crash and later married her. As a sort of composite of all nurses, Thelma Ritter plays a hardbitten, bighearted girl from Flatbush. Red-haired Susan Hayward, in the leading role, con vincingly matches her on-screen lip move ments to brunette Jane Froman's warm, vivacious singing voice on the sound track...
...skis on hummocks of ice, skipping from crest to crest like a stone over water. For nearly an hour he made passes at the island before he landed and slued to a halt. Photographer Silk crawled from the plane to shoot his pictures.* General Old, who had flown as copilot, trudged back up the plane's ski tracks in the 60°-below-zero cold. "I don't see how a man can live here," he told Fletcher when he had staggered back...
...issue with the picture sold out. Two weeks later, the Independent reprinted the picture and again sold out. Readers sent clips far & wide, and letters poured in. Wrote a Fifth Air Force sergeant in Korea: "Pilots especially [got] a reminder that 'God is their copilot.'" Wrote another soldier: "The picture gave us all a spiritual and moral uplifting...