Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich Heiress Fontaine, complete with satin pajamas and psychiatrist, decides that she can't stand her new husband's cough--after an hour or so of marriage. So she spends her nuptial night in the hotel room down the hall. The room happens to be inhabited by pilot Stewart, who plods through the "you take the bedroom and I'll sleep on the couch." situation and later takes the heroine "way from it all" in his westbound plane--together with the cigar-smoking carnival monkey, the cringing embezzler, a corpse-loaded coffin, and other less interesting cargo...
...looked over some of the movies of last fall's games," the 27-year-old former B-17 pilot reports, "and we saw evidence of good individual effort." Gannon says "everybody will start with a clean slate." Last fall International won two, lost four, and tied...
After service as a World War I Navy pilot (he did not get overseas), he returned to Yale's Sheffield Scientific School. He organized a flying club and an intercollegiate air meet, which he helped to win in a souped-up Jennie. He also became fast friends with a rough-cut classmate named Samuel F. Pryor, now his right-hand man. The old school tie is strong at Pan Am: Vice Presidents Howard B. Dean, Franklin Gledhill and David S. Ingalls were all Trippe contemporaries at Yale...
...Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime Army pilot and all-around air expert, who campaigned and raised money for Truman before Philadelphia and helped keep his native Arkansas from going over to Dixiecrat Thurmond...
Robert Braucher, appointed a visiting professor of Law in 1946, has received a permanent appointment as professor of Law. A graduate of Haverford College, Braucher received his LL.B. with high honors from the Law School in 1939. During the war, he was an Air Force pilot stationed in Burma, and later served with Military intelligence Headquarters in Washington...