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...veteran pilot was riding high on the fame of his solo flight around the world in the famed Winnie Mae in 186 hours and 49 minutes. Flyer Post gave the kid a piece of the Winnie Mae's fabric, and even autograptfed it for him. Said young Bill Odom brashly: "I'm gonna fly around the world myself some...
Last month, Reynolds decided to break Howard Hughes's round-the-world record of 91 hours, 14 minutes. He bought an A26 Douglas attack bomber, removed some 8,000 Ibs. of armor plate, crammed the plane full of gas tanks. He hired William P. Odom, a wartime transatlantic ferry pilot and China "Hump" flyer, to fly trie plane, and T. Carroll Sallee as engineer. Reynolds himself, who holds a private pilot's license, was "navigator," a euphemistic way of spelling passenger...
...Tokyo, Reynolds grandiloquently announced that he was taking over the controls. But when the plane came into LaGuardia Field, Pilot Odom, red-eyed and dog-tired, was still in the pilot's seat. He had flown round the world in 78 hours and 55 minutes. More remarkable, the plane was forced to fly 20,000 miles, some 5,000 miles more than Hughes, because Reynolds had not been able to get permission to fly over Russia...
...they wearily climbed out of the plane, Pilot Odom said: "I'm going to sleep." Said Sallee: "I'm going to eat, sleep and get married." (He did.) Two days later, ads in Manhattan papers cried the real news: "Just arrived! 'Reynolds Bombshell' ball-point pens...
Political wiseacres were sure of the result. It would be a 4-3 decision upholding the law, Justices Higgins, Ponder, Land and Fournet (proLong) voting for it, Justices Rogers, Odom and Chief Justice Charles Austin O'Niell (anti-Long) voting against it. They were bewildered last week when by vote of 6-1, only Justice Ponder dissenting, the Court held Huey Long's primary law unconstitutional. What that signified puzzled many...