Word: hub
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago. This week a Fort Wayne businessman will attempt to help the hurt. Onetime Test Pilot George H. Bailey will start flying HUB Airlines, into which he is pouring $750,000. Using three Beech Queen Airliners, HUB will provide four round trips daily between Fort Wayne and Meigs Airport in downtown Chicago. Next month the service will be expanded to Cincinnati, and eventually HUB expects to be flying between Fort Wayne and Indianapolis, Detroit and Cleveland as well. HUB and a company called Altair Airlines, which begins Philadelphia-Albany service this week with interplant General Electric executives as its primary...
...passenger plane on trunk lines and lately on the nation's 13 feeder or local airlines as well. The jets are expensive to fill, and airlines, as a result, are flying farther between touchdowns and slashing service to smaller cities. "The simple fact of the matter," says HUB'S Bailey, "is that the big carriers can't afford to run a $5,000,000 airplane for a 50-mile trip...
...Hoffman believes that the job of drama schools is to supply trained talent for Broadway and the regional theater. Others, like Yale's Drama Dean Robert Brustein, who until last year was theater critic for the New Republic, hold that the campus theater must be a hub of experimentation and creativity, which, as Brustein sees it, have been forsaken by Broadway in its pursuit of commercial success. So far, Brustein's most visible product is a protest play called Viet Rock, which moved to an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan and was panned for its stacked-cards plotting...
...days, point out that the team is good this year and alumni want to see it. Yale tickets are not made available to the non-alumni Boston public, but the local newspapers have built up hometown boys Leo and Gatto into the heroes of the Hub...
...segments, to satisfy the buffs who still bemoan the departure of WORL's Ken Carter. And expansion of WRKO-FM into a 24-hour rock station would be a final service (presently, the nine hours after midnight are filled with mush music and talk shows). This would enable the hub's serious devotees to escape Dick Summer, Boston's biggest "drab-gabber," who currently has a popular music monopoly in the prime listening hours after midnight...