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Almost forgotten in the week's tragic news was the fact that Alpha and Bravo both landed in England after record-breaking crossings. The time, covering 3,442 miles: 5 hr. 27 min. 42.8 sec.-or an average 630.02 m.p.h.-for Alpha; 5 hr. 29 min. 37.4 sec. for Bravo...
While other Boston newsmen still searched, Bernard Goldfine turned up in Chestnut Hill, invited the TIME-LIFE crew in for a detailed 3½-hr. interview, nightcapped it with a Scotch and water. At 3 a.m., Correspondents Jarvis and Gart got back to their office and started a stream of file copy to the Manhattan editors that ended a full twelve hours later. By that time, much-sought Bernard Goldfine had once again retreated, apparently into thin air, and at week's end was still the object of search by Boston's harried newsmen. For the story...
...boards, "what looked like a person covered completely with a blanket or canvas." When Murphy landed back at Tamiami, he was apparently alone. Estimated round-trip air time for that type of plane from Florida to Monte Cristi Airport on the north coast of the Dominican Republic: 7 hr...
French timed a test run from Manhattan to Zahns Airport to see how long the car carrying Murphy's passenger would take (1 hr. 40 min.). A year later, in Rockefeller Center, French picked out Dominican Consul General Arturo Espaillat as the man he had seen talking to Murphy when he rented the plane. ("With FBI agents around me, I followed him into a candy store. I positively identified him, and my heart jumped clear up in my throat.") The clincher in the FBI files: Murphy's original flight chart to Monte Cristi, including his handwritten notes, left...
...Competing for the last time as a Villanova undergraduate, Irish-born Ron Delany led the Wildcats to the I.C.4-A team title by lowering his own meet record for the mile from 4:08.4 to 4:07.8, and winning the 880-yd. run, just 1¼ hr. later, with a fast 1 :50. It was all just a warmup for next week's meeting at Compton, Calif, with Aussie Herb Elliott, who got ready himself by winning the California Relays mile...