Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Barnstormer Ham Lee went to work 25 years ago for the U.S. Post Office, flying the nation's first air mail route (Washington-New York); salary: $300 a month. Army pilot Dutch Kindelberger went to work for Glenn Martin as a $27.50-a-week draftsman. Ever since then Dutch has built them and Ham has flown them...
...stripped), has a famous temper (he once really broke all his golf clubs), and his wispy grey hair is thickest above his ears, which makes him look something like a horned owl. Ham is small (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lb.), mild-spoken and teetotaling. Dutch left Glenn Martin in 1925 to be Donald Douglas' chief engineer in Santa Monica. In 1934 General Motors picked Dutch to manage and expand its North American Aviation. But while Donald Douglas held back against the inevitable expansion of U.S. aircraft production (TIME, Nov. 22), Dutch pushed it with characteristic fervor...
Back in 1922-24 when I was testing for Glenn L. Martin at Cleveland, I often asked him to fly with me. His standard reply: "I'd like to, but my bankers won't let me." . . . Glenn had done much flying in the early days, but had increased in wisdom and in favor with God, man and the bankers and now made all his sales trips to Washington by train...
...Blue Boys at the Jazz Club's sixth session in the Hop Scotch Room of the Copley Square Hotel Sunday afternoon, December 12, from 3 to 6 o'clock. Hackett, a native of Boston, has led the band at Nick's in New York, and once played with Glenn Miller...
...longer does he doze in the sun, waiting for his bombers' return and planning where next to hit the Japs. Most of the administrative detail is in the hands of neat-minded, hard-working Brigadier General Edgar Glenn, Chief of Staff, an old friend who once (in 1922) served with Lieut. Chennault under one Major Spaatz, now Lieut. General "Tooey" Spaatz of the Mediterranean...