Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such help, plus the advantage of one of the fastest aircraft now flying, Lieut. Gustav B. Klatt, 29, set a new 2,419-mile west-to-east record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec., landed at New Jersey's McGuire A.F.B. Captain Robert M. Sweet, 30, flying nonstop round trip (4,838 miles), broke the east-to-west record (despite 40-to-150-m.p.h. head winds) in 3 hr. 34 min. 8.8 sec. When he blinked past his home base, Sweet clocked a round-trip record-6 hr. 42 min. 6.7 sec.-averaging 721.9 m.p.h. For the trip...
After semi-singing his way through more than 600 performances of Broadway's nonstop musical My Fair Lady, Actor Rex Harrison sailed away from his historic stint. Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins...
...flight, from Westover, Mass. Air Base to Buenos Aires in just over 13 hours, set new distance and speed marks for official nonstop, nonrefueling jet operation...
Directed Connection. In Los Angeles, a Metropolitan Coach Lines bus driver rolled six miles nonstop through morning rush-hour traffic, zoomed past red lights and waiting passengers after Rider Netti Appleton, 39, enraged over bus-stop delays, jammed a loaded .38 pistol into his side, barked: "Keep going-I'm late for work...
They left the University at 8 p.m. Wednesday night on the 2000 mile, nonstop trip. They must continue at a steady 45 m.p.h. pace in order to arrive in time...