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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Juan Trippe was ready to guide his Pan American Airways in a great new adventure which would make the world every man's oyster. And like the old Portuguese captains, who held a last open house on their high-pooped ships before they sailed off, Juan Trippe was also showing off his newest ship of the air. The ship was a great, fat-bellied Boeing Stratocruiser, the first delivered to any airline. When it flew into Boston last week, it created the biggest stir since Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis landed there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Time & Money. With his new Boeings, Trippe hopes to revolutionize air travel, just as the Stratocruiser's older brother, the 6-29, rewrote the book on strategic bombing. Trippe wants to open the way to globe-trotting to millions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...Winston Churchill for service in World War II; of coronary thrombosis; in Wells, England. Torpedo Expert Somerville was deputy commander of British naval units in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, led the British fleet into action at Oran, was skipper of famed Force H which helped keep the Mediterranean open for shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

That was last month. When Sunshine closed, they put me on a train and sent me up here. The day we got to Lincoln there were six inches of snow on the ground. Anybody who would open a New England track this early would enter his grandmother in a claiming race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Players Pack Lincoln Downs | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Professor Norbert Wiener of MIT will open a two-day conference on Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences at 4 p.m. today in Emerson D with a lecture on "The Nature of Information...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wiener Keynotes Math Conference | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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