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...tune of Tasker Crosson's orchestra the crowd will be served refreshments of ice cream, cigarettes, and cigars, while the stage is being set for Charlie Struck and Ollie Olson, grunt and groan experts from the Boston Garden...
Also booked for the evening is the winner of the New England jam session this winter, Tasker Crosson, who is preparing to give a hot half-hour of swing with his 12-piece Negro orchestra...
...ship was down somewhere between the Pole and Alaska. Since six weeks' rations were aboard and there is plenty of room to land on the ice, Russian airmen refused to be worried, set out to search from Russia and from Fairbanks. Into the air too leaped Joe Crosson and several others of the eager band of Alaskan flyers whose rescue work in the past has brought them world-wide renown. From Los Angeles, Flyer James Mattern, who contemplates a transpolar flight to Moscow and who was once rescued in Siberia by Flyer Levanevsky, dashed non-stop to Fairbanks...
From Point Barrow Chief Pilot Joe Crosson of Pan American's Pacific Alaska Airways took off in a transport plane with the bodies wrapped in blankets, strapped to cots. The embalming, begun at Point Barrow by Dr. Greist, was completed at Fairbanks. Then Pilot Crosson flew on to Seattle where a change was made to a large Douglas for the trip to Los Angeles. Meanwhile Will Rogers Jr. flew from California to New York to escort his mother, brother and sister back across the continent for the Rogers funeral at Los Angeles...
...crashed to death a year ago in the service of Alaskan Airways) made news: Pilot Frank Dorbandt circled low over the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Alaska Peninsula, landed on a level spot amid the active craters, took photographs and flew safely away again. Pilot Joe Crosson (who found Eielson's wrecked plane after the two-month search) flew from Fairbanks to diphtheria-stricken Point Barrow, bearing antitoxin...