Word: mellor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounting suspense came the tantalizing anticlimax. "Bomb Goes Silent,'' read the headlines. Would Annie, as weary as other Londoners, just peter out? One edition later, the news was: "Park Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
...evening of the third day, a handful of Londoners - stenographers, shopkeepers, even some Foreign Office toffs -collected about the familiar area now cleared for action. Lieut. Mellor and one sergeant walked into a public convenience marked "Ladies" (where the dynamite plungers had been installed). There was a hush, then Annie exploded, and greyish-black smoke shot up into the clear, rain-washed sunlight...
...pair of reporters of the Philadelphia Record, hearing of the shocking exploit of two British Security policemen who toured a London suburb in Nazi uniforms unmolested (TIME, Feb. 2), decided to see whether it could happen here. Dressed as German U-boat commanders, William B. Mellor Jr. and Frank Toughill wandered about downtown Philadelphia, talked German in a crowded automat, peering suspiciously at defense plants, asked a traffic cop questions in broken English. Only interest they aroused was from a small boy on roller skates. Said he: "Oh, boy! Join the Navy and see the world...
Beech's secretary then was Olive Ann Mellor, a smart girl who urged him to sell out at the top of the boom to Curtiss-Wright. He did, became a Curtiss-Wright vice president. But Beech is no chairwarmer, unless the chair is a pilot's seat (he has 15,000 solo hours). So first he married Olive Ann, then he quit Curtiss to organize Beech Aircraft in 1932. His first break came when he startled the industry with his "reverse stagger" biplane (lower wing ahead of upper). Called unairworthy at the time, Beech biplanes are still...