Word: pilot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Career: Assigned to duty in Hawaii, he was tapped for staff duty before he had a chance either to com mand a squadron or gather the service and flight time necessary for 6-17 pilot rating. He was assistant chief of staff for Air Intelligence when the U.S. entered World War II, became one of the Air Corps's youngest brigadier generals at 36. Because he looked even younger than he was, he had to learn to endure gibes about his age: once while in Tunisia, in mufti, he was ordered by a chicken colonel to hustle...
...enormous numbers of troops, but is intended to reassure the Europeans that they and their property will be protected, and to provide Moslems with a visible reminder that the French are in Algeria to stay. As soon as an area is pacified by quadrillage, the French hope to organize pilot, mixed elections as evidence of their good intentions...
...insulting to spend over a column on Champagne Charlie and not find space to chronicle such an outstanding British aviation achievement as the record-breaking flight of Britain's F.D.-2. Had the feat been performed in an American jet, I am sure we should have had the pilot's face beaming at us from your cover...
...successor in NATIONAL AFFAIRS is Senior Editor Louis Banks, 39, who has more interest in the sport of Presidents than the sport of kings. Sometime Golfer Banks was a reporter for the Los Angeles Examiner before he went off to war in the Pacific as a Navy pilot. He joined TIME's Los Angeles Bureau in 1945. Later, he was our diplomatic correspondent in Washington, came to New York in 1949 as a NATIONAL AFFAIRS writer...
...Look at Eternity. The cunning fakery of the sets was dwarfed by the outsize playing of the big cast. Director Hill, 31, an ex-marine fighter pilot, still cannot believe his luck: "If one actor had missed his cue, the whole thing would have fallen apart. Every single actor came in on the button. It was the most beautiful week I ever spent. Everybody realized that it was an experiment in trying to open up TV to the kind of fast, intricate cutting only possible to get in films...