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...Like a Greyhound bus driver who admires sports cars, United Airlines Captain Marion ("Pat") Boling, 43, cherished a quiet dream. In 1949 four-engine Pilot Boling watched the late Bill Odom lift a small Beechcraft Bonanza off a Honolulu airport on a nonstop flight that ended 4,957 miles away in New Jersey. Eying the light plane's performance, Boling resolved some day to better the mark. Last week he did. Flying an orange Bonanza from Manila, Pat Boling took a broad arc over the Pacific, finally came in for a landing in Pendleton, Ore. after flying alone...
...GREYHOUND CORP., biggest intercity bus operator, is riding rough road. Firm slashed payrolls to counter first-quarter loss of $1,000,000-plus, caused largely by bad weather and heavy depreciation costs...
...went to Coca-Cola as a salesman right after Atlanta's Emory University, won a reputation as a topnotch troubleshooter, made his mark in Coke's hierarchy by putting some fizz into the Canadian subsidiary as its president. ¶Edgar A. Jones, 42, was named president of Greyhound's two-year-old Rent-A-Car subsidiary, whose success was largely responsible for a 7% increase in Greyhound's operating revenues (to $65,566,223) in 1958's first quarter. Erie-born Ed Jones, a bachelor, has been with Greyhound in several administrative capacities since...
After an uncomplicated hysterectomy, women take an average of seven weeks before resuming normal activities. The University of Pennsylvania's Dean (of veterinary medicine) Mark W. Allam contrasted this with the female greyhound, which, after the same operation, is back on the track within two weeks, running a half-mile at 35 m.p.h. While this is no mark for a woman to aim at, Dr. Moss suggested that quick return to full activity should be better for humans than the average present-day convalescence. Patients should not fear that their wounds will tear apart; many surgeons hold that...
...time), tore her flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who managed to keep his footing at the pool's edge, almost lifted Announcer Gene Rayburn off the diving board on the wings of a placard picturing Co-Sponsor Greyhound's mascot. But the show hung together and the pictures moved surely and crisply to the mainland, so that millions of viewers as far north as Toronto could join Steve Allen in Havana "on a romantic and starry night...