Word: phoenixed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agent who handles big-name stars like Greta Garbo and Ginger Rogers, insists on calling them "Darling" on the telephone. But last week Hayward was also going places in aviation-he was a promoter, manager and part owner of Southwest Airways, a husky, 2 7-month-old enterprise in Phoenix, Ariz, which operates four big pilot-training centers, an overhaul depot for training planes and an air cargo line...
Cactus and Rattlesnakes. Hayward raised $30,000 from rich clients like James Stewart and Henry Fonda, bought a small civilian school at Phoenix, hired six instructors. A little later he bought a one-mile desert tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder...
Soon the British decided they wanted a Hayward-run training center too. So Hayward borrowed $200,000 from the British Government, still more from his friends, slapped up Falcon Field 25 miles east of Phoenix. This succeeded right off the bat -Southwest was on its way. To handle the Army's stepped-up pilot program Hayward expanded the original civilian school and built Thunderbird Field II. To overhaul training planes and engines he set up a big repair depot. To haul high-priority military cargo he started an airline over a censored Pacific Coast route. Meanwhile Southwest trained thousands...
...Phoenix, Ariz...
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 40, novelist (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre); and June Johnson, 20, student at the University of Arizona; he for the third time, she for the first; two days after he was divorced from Photographer Margaret Bourke-White; in Phoenix...