Word: luthers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valuable is the life of Glenn Luther Martin to his business associates that they made him sign a pledge 13 years ago never to ride in an airplane. Last week Airplane Designer Martin received word that his 78-year-old father lay dying in Santa Ana, Calif. Builder Martin boarded a plane at Baltimore, flew across the continent to his father's deathbed swiftly but too late. Said he: "I felt justified in breaking the contract and company officials agreed...
...years of hard times (the Shuberts managed to pocket a good share of the Men in White proceeds) and an identity of theatrical ideals has bound them closely together. In ability they are not evenly matched. Lee Strasberg is probably the most distinguished and experienced director of the Group. Luther & Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Alexander Kirkland had theatrical names before they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group's lineup since it started. From opulent Hollywood, Actor Tone recently sent back...
...test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce did not think it necessary, ordered him not to. Result: Snow's resignation...
...Baltimore, Glenn Luther Martin's gigantic new Clipper No. 7, laid up for three months because of ice conditions in Chesapeake Bay, got off on a test flight with the biggest load (51,000 lb.) ever carried by a U. S.-built aircraft...
Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau of Air Commerce was not one to sit back and watch Pan American's big show go on without doing anything. Last year the onetime West Point footballer was charged by Congress with providing safety for U. S. airways not only within the Nation's borders but beyond them. Out he went to Oakland, Calif., surrounded himself with technical experts, chartered TWA's original Douglas transport-long used as an experimental "dog-ship"- prepared it for ocean flying experiments. Because of the additional weight, and because the Douglas...