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...Floy Heck, then 70, was sitting on the Pan Am jet between her husband and her friends, en route from their California retirement residence to a Mediterranean cruise. After the KLM jet sheared off the top of their plane, Heck could not speak or move. "My mind was almost blank. I didn't even hear what was going on," she told an Orange County Register reporter years later. But her husband Paul Heck, 65, reacted immediately. He ordered his wife to get off the plane. She followed him through the smoke "like a zombie," she said. Just before they jumped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Out Alive | 4/25/2005 | See Source »

...strong Tiger quartet powered past the exhausted team of Shelby Clavert, Mary Rentoumus, Ziomic and Floy, giving Princeton the narrow victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Aquawomen Challenge Vaunted Tigers; Final Relay Deals Crimson 79-70 Loss | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...back made it. Seated in row 34, Mrs. Floy Heck of Leisure World sat in a stupor until her husband Paul ordered: "Floy, get up!" He led her to the wing. She jumped, injuring her legs, and could not walk. "I kept praying and asked Jesus to help me, and I kept crawling away." She did not see her husband again until they were reunited in a U.S. hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: ...What's he doing? He'll kill us all!' | 4/11/1977 | See Source »

...from Marseilles to Macao; Nikita Khrushchev even has one, loaded with Marxian uplift featurettes. Actually, Scopitone's "musies" are descended from U.S. Soundies, which during World War II filled bus terminals and B-girl grottoes with grainy, black-and-white productions of The Flat Foot Floogee with the Floy Floy and A Boy in Khaki, a Girl in Lace. Television and Lucky Strike's Hit Parade put a merciful end to Soundies, but it looks as if Scopitone will be here to stay awhile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Scooby-Ooby Scopitone | 8/21/1964 | See Source »

Rush Decision. In Jal, N. Mex., Floy Wynn, editor and publisher of the weekly Record, suddenly decided to move the newspaper offices out of her home when she discovered that she was allergic to printer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 6, 1958 | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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