Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace of an ordeal ... which stripped you of all that was not intrinsic, you discovered a mysterious creature born of yourself. . . . Man does not die. . . . What man fears is himself...
...Along with all this, Author Bates raises the moral question that was common in the years following World War I: What friendship does a man owe to his injured, mortal enemy?-a question that is answered with more humaneness by the R.A.F. pilot (who at least respects a fellow flyer, whatever his country's regime) than by the men of the Breadwinner...
...Flyer who runs an aviation taxi service around the world...
...touched (notable exceptions: his annuity and three Chicago apartment houses) seemed to turn to red ink. Among others, there was the Brown Bomber softball team ($30,000 loss), a Detroit restaurant called the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack (about $15,000), a Michigan dude ranch ($25,000), and his flyer last fall in West Coast pro football ($7,500). He gets about 350 fan letters a week, mostly from women, and mostly wanting money...
...pass at a girl, was killed because the Army regarded it as detrimental to the dignity of a major's rank. Still another casualty was the film's only sure-fire chuckle-which had been placed, with fantastic bad taste, en route to Hiroshima. The laugh: a flyer asks, "Is it true that if you fool around with this stuff long enough, you don't like girls any more?" Says Robert Walker, "I hadn't noticed...