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Saint-Ex was born in 1900, and so was too young for combat flying during World War I. It was the only omission of a flamboyant career, and the flyer made up for it by his death in 1944, when, overage and stiff from crash wounds, he disappeared over the Mediterranean at the controls of a U.S. reconnaissance plane. The legend he left is a rare compound of literary brilliance and high gallantry; no biographer, including the present one, has been wholly successful in dealing with...
...threats and simulated indignation on the part of Moscow because an American flyer was "shot down" over Russian territory? Russia has been carrying on an organized spy system in this country for a decade or more. Can it be that N. K. can give it out but can't take it? Or is the real basis for the uproar the discovery that they have been being spied on for several years and just found...
...only plane that came was a twin-engine Piper Apache piloted by a U.S. adventurer whom U.S. authorities had been trying to get the goods on since last year. The pilot was Matthew Edward Duke, 45, ex-Navy flyer and ex-husband of Melody Thomson, 35, blonde heiress to a $3,000,000 tobacco fortune. In 1947, Duke hit the skids, got picked up on bad-check charges, then turned to the dangerous game of flying anti-Castro Cubans to U.S. exile...
...goes well, the plane should prove a real moneymaker for Delta, which ranks as the nation's sixth-biggest line and one of its sharpest. Founded as a crop-dusting line 35 years ago by C. E. Woolman, 70, who still runs it with an old flyer's seat-of-the-pants instinct, Delta was the first to put the pure-jet DC-8 into service last year. Now, with six of the big jets flying, Delta is all set on its long-range routes, which stretch from New York south to Venezuela and west to Fort Worth...
...July day in 1938, thumbing through a pile of story clips, City Editor Harry F. Reutlinger of Hearst's Chicago evening American turned up an item reporting that a missing U.S. flyer named Douglas Corrigan had been sighted off the Irish Coast. Reutlinger promptly put in transatlantic phone calls to all three of Ireland's major airports, kept all three lines open until Corrigan landed at Dublin and took the call. "Fly the wrong way?" prompted Reutlinger, mindful that Corrigan, before taking off from New York, had given Los Angeles as his destination. "I sure did," said...