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...similar reasons, he still flies himself. He says: "When you're alone 5000 feet in the air, lots of things about a plane become important that you can overlook on the ground." The details of design are left to young William T. ("Bill") Schwendler, 40, who bosses the company's 500 engineers. Bill Schwendler sits down with Roy & Jake when a new design is gestating, and they 11 mull it over. He has a sixth sense as to what Roy wants. Thus, to get a prototype of the newest Grumman plane, Roy simply wrote out a memo describing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Embattled Farmers | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...believe very many others also, am very grateful to TIME for its coverage and evaluation of news. We who are so often too close to the drudgery, the incompetency, the inhumanity and uncharitableness of war too easily overlook the significance and sweep of affairs in which we play parts, though they be very minor ones. TIME illumines the too shaded areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...Fred, 31, is the U.S. Army captain-husband of Cinemactress Rosalind Russell. There is one grandson, Carl Lance, I. Carl Brisson's devotees easily overlook these vital statistics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Engaging Grandfather | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...hope the Republicans have enough political acumen . . . not to overlook the name of Bill Jeffers when they consider suitable candidates for the Presidency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1943 | 10/18/1943 | See Source »

...ever felt like that." He resented the suggestion that modern life had been made as dull as ditchwater: "And, by the way, is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun." But to apostles of progress he remarked: "We sometimes tend to overlook the quiet and even bashful presence of the machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Orthodoxologist | 10/11/1943 | See Source »

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