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...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...AIRWAYS CZAR to control jet-age traffic will be either CAA administrator James Pyle or President's aviation adviser, Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood Quesada. Commerce Under Secretary Louis Rothschild sorely wanted job, but airmen protested he was too close to rail interests...
Winging from Augusta, Ga. to Washington aboard the Columbine one day last spring, President Eisenhower sprang a question on General Elwood Quesada, his special assistant for aviation. What, asked Ike, is the state of U.S. airlines as they prepare to enter the jet age? "Pete" Quesada's answer: Not so good. Though airlines are committed to spend $4 billion for new jet equipment by 1962, they have run into sliding earnings and difficulties in financing their purchases. Ike asked for a special report on the airlines' plight. Last week Quesada sent him a 44-page document prepared...
...reduced to 20,000 ft., 2) prohibited jet penetration swoops from high to low altitudes through civil airways. Exception: emerency jet-bomber and fighter "scrambles," which would be continued whenever necessary for the national defense. Said the President's special assistant for aviation affairs, retired Air Force General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada: "We can have some of this in effect within a few days...
...ease the strain on Washington's dangerously overworked National Airport. Air Force Lieut. General (ret.) Elwood P. Quesada, special White House aide for aviation, announced that he is mulling over four possible sites for a new airport. The narrowed-down list: Friendship Airport, between Washington and Baltimore, and sites near the Virginia towns of Burke. Chantilly and Pendar...