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Sutherland's search began almost five years after his flyer son Wilfred, 25, shot down over Holland, was reported killed in action. During a London visit, on Easter morning 1948, Sutherland left his hotel room and strolled across the street to King's Cross, because "something seemed to draw me there." Out of nowhere, he says, Wilfred appeared; the two men stared at each other. "He didn't say anything, but I knew he was thinking, 'I've seen your face before.' " Then Wilfred -or the man Sutherland believed to be Wilfred - was swallowed...
...expressionistic still lifes and landscapes, Osborn decided to concentrate on cartoons. The war gave him his big chance. An admiral saw his broad-penned sketches and put him to work as a lieutenant doing safety pamphlets for the Bureau of Aeronautics. Osborn promptly invented "Dilbert," a pinheaded, bottle-nosed flyer who appeared in 5,000 drawings and made every harebrained mistake in the book. While instructors groaned, Dilbert dived giddily out of the blue until his wing ripped off, ground-looped, stalled, spun and smashed his protesting plane at every opportunity. By the time the war was over, Dilbert...
Trip Abroad. Parker, who likes to describe a fountain pen as "a controlled leak," got his first introduction to foreign markets when he went to France and Germany to study. Later, after a stint as a Navy flyer in World War I, he went to work for the family company, persuaded his father to start a British subsidiary. Said father George later: "We lost $100,000 the first year because we did not understand the British temperament. We have become wiser since...
...Equipment. A graduate of the California Institute of Technology and a World War 1 flyer, Hal Harris was made chief Army test pilot after the war. In 1922, when the wings of a plane he was flying dropped off in midair, he became the first Army pilot to parachute to safety from a disabled plane. Harris racked up 13 air records, test-piloted the first big U.S. bomber in 1922, the six-engine Barling. In 1926 he went to Peru, and flew crop-dusting planes, later became vice president and general manager of Peruvian Airways and from...
...short time after that letter went out, TIME received an answer from a real Captain Callahan-Captain James P. Callahan of the U.S. Air Force. "I don't remember giving anybody permission to capitalize on my capabilities as a flyer or my inability to know what to talk about at dinner parties . . . Your letter . . . has made my association with personnel of this squadron a standard joke...