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Working far better than Reynolds' pens, the Reynolds Bombshell took off from LaGuardia Field, stopped at Gander, then crossed the Atlantic in the record time of 5 hours and 16 minutes. It landed in Paris, roared on to Cairo and Karachi, with Reynolds passing out pens at all stops. The weather information was sketchy; at Calcutta the best an airport employee could tell them about prevailing winds came from an almanac...
...bourgeois Chamber of Commerce ever did it better. In Moscow last week, between sessions of the Foreign Ministers' Conference, the Russians kept U.S. correspondents panting with a dizzy round of sightseeing tours. Forty of them inspected the Kremlin (BUT NARY A GANDER AT JOE, headlined the New York Daily News). Side trips to Leningrad, Stalingrad and other cities were coming up. And a wide-eyed party was escorted through the nine-story plant of Pravda, Russia's biggest (circ. 2,500,000) newspaper...
While the Coast Guard began a hopeless search, the Star of Hollywood dropped to 10,000 feet and retraced the 500 miles back to Gander. T.W.A. and other operators ordered their Constellations to keep below 12,000 feet (where the cabin need not be pressurized) until astrodomes could be made safer and navigators supplied with safety harnesses. That was just about what the Army had done...
Last week on the cover of the New Yorker, Eustace Tilley took his annual gander at a pink butterfly. Inside, back among the brandy and perfume ads appeared a feature not nearly so old as Eustace Tilley, but already as much of a standby: the quietly perceptive weekly Letter from London. (Last week's topic was the coal crisis: "like living a bad patch of the war all over again...
...them inadequate). One hope of betterment lay in the fact that "ground-controlled approach," in which radar is used to guide a pilot on to a field he cannot see, was being installed at New York, Chicago and Washington airports. Pan American Airways had put it in at Gander, Newfoundland (after a Belgian airliner crashed there, killing 27). If used at all large airports, G.C.A. might cut airline fatalities in half...