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Home is where most WASPs will land, according to Mrs. Hazel Taylor, their public-relations officer, who predicted: "Their careers will be marriage." Jackie Cochran's own "tentative" plan is to run an orphanage on the Odium ranch in California. But airmen who heard such intimations of renunciation wondered. Flying is a habit hard to break...
Frazer's "associates" include David Baird, vice president of Marsh & McLennan, insurance brokers, and Floyd Odium, Boyd Hatch and Oswald L. Johnston, all of Atlas Corp. But Atlas itself is putting no money into Graham-Paige stock. Atlas Corp.'s June 30 statement showed a heavy cash position. The purchases were made by Atlas officers and directors as "personal investments...
WASPs, who come from all walks of life, have one thing in common: a passion for planes. Their chief is glamorous, dashing Jacqueline Cochran, ex-beauty shop operator, wife of Promoter Floyd Odium. Mrs. Love, ex-test pilot, is now a WASP executive officer. Among WASPs at Romulus (Mich.) Army Air Field: an ex-gym teacher, an ex-Broadway dancer, an ex-Hollywood hat designer. WASP Hazel Ying Lee once flew with the Chinese Army. They are young (18½-35), but Paula Loop, ex-schoolma'am, thinks that the uncertain hours and nervous strain age them fast...
...Dominion set a Commonwealth precedent by making Franklin Delano Roosevelt's friend, Minister Leighton McCarthy, the first Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Last week it upped the Canadian Ministers in the Soviet Union (Leolyn Dana Wilgress), Brazil (Jean Desy) and China (retired Major General Victor Wentworth Odium) to ambassador's rank...
...Connecticut Telephone is producing much field equipment used by the Russians; Ward La France is producing giant rescue trucks for the Army. Result: since 1939 the combination's sales have skyrocketed twentyfold to over $25,000,000, profits have jumped tenfold to over $600,000. Come peace, Stanley Odium (who will join the Air Corps soon) has other plans: concentrate on trucks, get Rubatex to supply the rubber parts, while Connecticut furnishes spark plugs and ignition systems...