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Nine years ago in Bradford, Pa., an engineer named C. G. ("Center of Gravity") Taylor gave up the corporate ghost trying to manufacture and sell a light, cheap airplane, the Taylor Cub. On the auction block went his two-year-old Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. For $522.50 a native Bradford boy, husky, genial William Thomas Piper, ex-oilman, engineer and Harvard hammer thrower, whose flying experience consisted of one short ride, bought the defunct firm. With an additional $2,877.50 he formed Taylor Aircraft Co., took Taylor in as partner...
With comparatively few of his Cubs in the hands of private owners, Planeman Piper is doing everything possible to stimulate private flying. His sales policy includes a free training course with each plane sold. Last week he was pleased as punch to deliver twelve Cub Coupes (equipped with two-way radios and blind-flying instruments) to the Civil Aeronautics Authority, which is making many potential Piper customers by training 10,000 new pilots this year. To get ready for them, the No. 1 U. S. light plane maker last week offered 33,290 shares of stock (price: $8.75 a share...
...Willie Boy Baxter, Jackie Cooper* continues the assiduous typing of himself as the lefthanded, trouble-hunting, likable cub first seen in What a Life...
...year-old, Indiana-born Elmer Davis, a onetime Rhodes Scholar, star of a booming decade (1914-24) on the New York Times, fictioneer and political pundit, has much more than a safe-&-sane, down-home twang. In his ten years on the Times he rose swiftly from cub to something approaching an Elder Statesman, writing editorials, roving Europe, handling extra-special news stories, enjoying a leeway few Times reporters have had in the news columns...
Last fortnight, his health cracked at 44, Joe Connolly called it quits and resigned. To replace him, in came Gortatowsky. Gorty had started 33 years ago as an unpaid cub on the Atlanta Constitution. When Hearst's King Features summoned him 22 years later he was the Constitution's managing editor. He moved steadily up through the complicated Hearst hierarchy, seemed to have reached a blind alley when he became chronic assistant general manager. But last week he had moved up again...