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Announced yesterday by the Student Council was the appointment of three undergraduates from the civilian student body to serve on the organization. The men include Frederick P. Murphy, Jr. '47, of East Norwalk, Connecticut, and Lowell House; Daniel P.S. Paul '46, of Daytona Beach, Florida, and Adams House; and Nathan Weston '47, of Cambridge, and Lowell House...
...begun operating a charter-and-barnstorming company near Chicago; five years later switched to St. Petersburg, Fla. There National's assets consisted of tireless George Baker and a rickety, single-engined Ryan cabin plane which he flew from cow pastures at Jacksonville to empty lots at Daytona Beach...
...hangar and tinkered with the motor a bit, opened the office, sold the ticket, carried the baggage to the plane, and finally hedgehopped his passenger to the other end of the line. Once a plane landed on the back of a cow lying on the poorly-lighted Daytona Beach runway. But George's luck held: the cow was killed, but the passengers unscathed...
...Bynum E. Green Jr., Mobile, Ala., Murphy High School, Mobile; Robert S. Haltiwanger, Winston--Salem, N. C., R. J. Reynolds High School, Winston-Salem; Bradley D. Harris, Annapolis, Md., Mount Hermon School, Mount Hermon, Mass.; Gordon G. Heiner III, Lexington, Va., Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.; James M. Howe IV, Daytona Beach, Fla., The Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...
...fell in Ohio. Next day an engine failed over Long Island Sound: one drowned, two injured. At Cheyenne two died when a spitting motor sent a plane into a spin after the takeoff. Another flier broke his neck in an Ohio snowstorm. Engine failure killed a pilot in a Daytona Beach takeoff. Eight days later another plane went into a spin at Cheyenne. Bad weather crashed a flier in Iowa; a pilot, lost in a thick Pennsylvania fog, jumped at too low an altitude...