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...FIRESIDE BOOK OF FLYING STORIES (464 pp.)-Edited by Paul Jensen-Simon & Schuster...
...hoax-in retrospect, guilty only of being 75 years premature*-leads off this easygoing anthology of flying life and lore. Editor Jensen, a World War II fighter pilot, has rummaged high & low for a collection which should leave flying buffs cooing happily and give even the uninitiated an occasional kick...
...Swift & Friends. The best thing about the book is its lack of pretentiousness: Jensen has avoided high-flown speculations about the metaphysics and poetry of flight, has sensibly followed a straight chronological pattern. His opening section mixes solid historical accounts of the infancy of flying with a John Dos Passes dithyramble (from The Big Money) on the Wright brothers, a pleasantly batty story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on an "air jungle" high over Britain, and a tale about Tom Swift taking" his girl up, which opens with the classic line: "Oh, Tom, is it really safe...
This is the key. The Yankees have recently sold (not even traded) Dick Kryhoski, 1b, Bill Johnson, 3b, and Cliff Mapes, rf-cf. They still have such spares as Jensen and Bauer, lf-cf, Coleman, 2b, Mize, 1b, and Martin 2b-ss. And the only time they have a man out of the position he was born to is when the sensational Gil McDougald plays third...
Pinpoint Breakaway. At 35,000 ft. Pilot Jensen chanted the breakaway signal: 5-4-3-2-1. Then, as the Skyrocket dropped, the B-29 banked sharply to the left. Bridgeman was on his own. With bare hands (no gloves for this critical job), he flicked four switches in quick sequence. Each switch fired a rocket chamber. They made a curious sound-a "bloof" and a "schplunk," as Bridgeman describes it. A trail of dense white vapor streamed out from the tail. Ten seconds after the drop, Bridgeman was speeding faster than sound. He did not even feel this "passing...