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...managing editor (1951-60); of cancer; in Chicago. In 1938, guessing that a daredevilish pilot named Douglas Corrigan might not fly to Los Angeles from New York as he had told civil aeronautics officials, Reutlinger put in transatlantic phone calls to major Irish airports. Reaching Corrigan just after the flyer landed his single-engined monoplane at Dublin, the newsman prompted, "Fly the wrong way?" "I sure did," said the pilot, forever after famed as "Wrong Way" Corrigan. "Stick to that," advised Reutlinger. "It's the best story...
Yemen in turn is loudly threatening to invade Saudi Arabia. Although the little country has no qualified flyer (its one pilot survived three crash landings and has not yet received a license), the Sallal regime boasts that it will return enemy attacks "as far as Amman," the Jordanian capital. With Nasser's belligerent backing, Sallal proclaimed a new "Republic of the Arabian Peninsula," laying claim to about three dozen kingdoms, sheikdoms and sultanates near Aden, most of which are under British protection...
...decision to go national underscores Playbill's ambition to become something more than just a theater program with ads. For most of its 78 years, that was all it was. Its creator, a New York printer named Frank V. Strauss, started in 1884 with a one-page flyer, pretentiously titled The New York Dramatic Chronicle, that gave theatergoers little more than the cast, inappropriate ads (CHEW WHITE'S YUCATAN GUM) and, by way of editorial fare, bad jokes ("The hen is not a cheerful fowl: it broods a great deal...
After Korea. Schirra went through the Navy's test-pilot school and then was assigned to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent. Md. For a flyer this was longhaired stuff, and fine for Schirra's desire to emphasize the engineering side of aeronautics. His work was checking out the hottest new aircraft, and sometimes playing games with antiaircraft missiles. When he first heard about the Mercury man-in-space program, he put it out of his mind as visionary, but later realized that space flight is the logical next step in aviation, and went after...
...Joseph Jr. (who was killed over Europe as a World War II flyer) made the varsity squad, but never earned his letter. Jack suffered the first of his back injuries while scrimmaging with the jayvees against the varsity. Bobby earned three letters, made first string in his senior year. He also broke his leg in a scrimmage, stubbornly kept on playing until he collapsed. Back in 1911. Joe Sr. won his H in baseball...