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...shuttle functioned without a flaw-till the very end. Then the PBY bringing out Jeanne Perier, 16, and her brother Etienne, 14 (their mother and sister were killed), blew a tire as it settled on the runway. "What was that?" cried Jeanne. "Just a tire blowing," answered a flyer...
Paul Mantz, 43-year-old movie stunt flyer, who had entered the Bendix Trophy Race four times before but never won, had this race figured: it would be won by an old hand, not by some war-bred whippersnapper...
Exhibit A. In Kansas City, Stunt Flyer Leonard Sherman, demonstrating "How Not to Fly," crashed to his death...
Then the Warners took a flyer in Western Electric's experimental sound-film, which most Hollywood companies had already turned down. On Aug. 6. 1926, Warner's Manhattan theater screened Don Juan (John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Myrna Loy) with a fully synchronized musical background. On the same bill were eight sound shorts. Historians agree that the bell tolled that evening for silent pictures...
...Place to Go. . . . Stocky Mr. Thomas, a 'Navy flyer in World War I, got the urge to do something personally about politics while he was serving for three World War II years as a special assistant to the Navy Secretary (his forte: aircraft procurement and contract negotiation). In Washington he was astonished by the small caliber of some of the political big guns...