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...Piedmont Airlines' Flight 349 took off from Washington and headed for Charlottesville, Va. Fifty-one minutes later, with his flaps down for a landing at Charlottesville airport, Pilot George Lavrinc crashed the DC-3 into Bucks Elbow Mountain, 13 miles to the west. Killed were 26 of the 27 persons aboard, including Lavrinc...
...World War II, later went to the airlines as a ground communications man. In 1948, while working with the Panagra line in South America, Lavrinc met and married brunette Bonnie Maupin, a Braniff Airways reservations girl. He diligently took flying lessons on his own, qualified as a copilot with Piedmont in 1951, advanced to captain six years later...
Then George Lavrinc's life began to fall apart. He had two children whom he adored, but his marriage was breaking up. When Piedmont transferred Lavrinc to Washington, he left his wife and children in Norfolk. Always a thoughtful man, he turned more and more to religion. He joined the fundamentalist Cherrydale Independent Baptist Church in Arlington, attended Sunday services, Bible study classes, prayer meetings, and kept a diary in which he recorded his deepest religious feelings. Before the end of 1957, he filed suit for divorce, charging that Bonnie Lavrinc had "manifested interest in other men." Bonnie filed...
...headaches, was operated on for a sinus condition. He spoke of a reconciliation with his wife-if only he could bring her to religious ways. A solution, he thought, would be to become a flying missionary in South America and to take his family there. He even asked Piedmont for a two-year leave of absence so that he could train for the work...
North Carolina (14): The Democrats, boasting their biggest and best organization in any presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to his fellow Baptists, have shown the Kennedy Houston film three times. A sitdown by old-line Democrats could throw it to Nixon. UNPREDICTABLE...