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...Roger," said West Pointer Smith and headed across New York City. He was flying Old John Feather Merchant barely under the thick cloud layer...
...Street. In Manhattan, a few minutes before 10 a.m., workers in the midtown towers heard a plane close by - very close. It thundered past the stark, stone structures of Rockefeller Center. On the streets below, pedestrians startled by the low-flying craft looked up, saw Old John Feather Merchant barely miss a 60-floor building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street. Then the craft, southbound, pulled up into the cloud...
Forthwith, Symington must determine what is worth the attempt to sell. He can be reasonably sure that the $65 billion of tanks, planes, ammunition and other combat items will have little resale value. But there will still be $25 billion of salable items (merchant ships, plants, tractors, trucks, clothing...
Divorced. David Field Beatty, 2nd Earl Beatty, 40, Navy Commander, eldest son of Britain's late World War I Grand Fleet commander, grandson of Chicago's late Merchant Marshall Field; by Countess Beatty, Virginia-born, thrice-married Dorothy Power Hall Sands Beatty, 42; after eight years of marriage (no children); in London. Grounds: adultery...
Conway, Britain's famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven...