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William John Frye was a Texan who was born to fly. When three Army planes made a forced landing near his father's ranch in the Panhandle during World War I, 14-year-old Jack Frye knew where his future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Man Who Would Fly | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...years later he packed off for Los Angeles, saved enough money jerking sodas to take flying lessons. He soloed in seven hours, became a partner in a flying school, coolly gambled with death by stunt flying for Hollywood movies. Soon Frye and two pals bought a single-engined Fokker, set up Standard Air Lines, one of the first in the nation, to lift Hollywood stars from Los Angeles to their desert hideaways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Man Who Would Fly | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...takes 18 months for the U.S. to prepare for a full-scale test, U.S. atomic experts were certain that the Russians began planning for the new test series even before they finished the last. "More and more," wrote the Christian Science Monitor's U.N. Correspondent William R. Frye, "students of Soviet diplomacy are leaning toward the theory that Moscow never wanted to stop testing, that it proclaimed a unilateral halt last March without the slightest intention of making the cessation permanent, and that the whole objective of Soviet diplomacy in this area is to avoid a test ban without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Tumult & Fallout | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

While Richard N. Frye, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies, was in Moscow this summer, definite arrangements were supposedly made for Soviet archaeologist Serge Tolstov to come to the University...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Soviet Union Proposes Exchange of Students | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

...Frye said last night that three Russian professors had expressed their desire to come to the University, as did several students if they could secure fellowships. Frye suggested that the U.S. could test Zarubin's sincerity by actually making a number of fellowships avail- able...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Soviet Union Proposes Exchange of Students | 10/29/1957 | See Source »

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