Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Maureen O'Hara, 47, Dublin's durable gift to Hollywood (50 films so far); and Charles Blair, 58, Pan American pilot who met Maureen in Ireland 21 years ago and earned his own fame in 1951 as the first man to solo over the North Pole in a single-engined plane; both for the third time; in St. Thomas...
...Alaskan bush pilot had to be resourceful as well as rugged. N.C.A. Veteran Jim Dodson remembers delivering babies on two separate flights from the wilds to Fairbanks while steering his single-engined Gull Wing Stinson with his feet. Petersen's line has never had a fatality, in spite of plenty of close calls. Once Petersen was forced down on frozen Rhone River. On the ground he laid a spruce-bough SOS, and after he had been spotted, had to wait helplessly for several more days while his rescuer stole some of his business...
...Edward H. Litchfield, 53, chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh from 1955 to 1965, while also holding down the board chairmanship of S.C.M. (Smith-Corona Marchant) Corp. and a handful of other executive positions; when the light plane carrying him, his mother, his wife and two children, and a pilot crashed into Lake Michigan. Steeped in administration as a top aide to Lucius Clay during the occupation of Germany, Litchfield was dean of Cornell's business school in 1955 when Pitt chose him as chancellor; in no time, he had kicked off a $126 million program to expand...
...Airline Pilot Ernest K. Gann, then 42, quit the cockpit for full-time writing (The High and The Mighty, Fate Is the Hunter), now lives a bucolic existence on one of Puget Sound's San Juan Islands and feels sorry for airline pilots who spend all their working lives at it. Gann is now determined to quit writing and try painting, mainly because he loves the challenge of tackling a new subject that he knows nothing about. "It's fear that makes us old," he says. "In a new career, you don't know what...
...with the role of Cleopatra, it is virtually impossible for any actress to live up to that kind of advance billing. Jennifer West fails abysmally by playing Helen as a dumb, dumb blonde, more waitress than temptress; far from launching a thousand ships, it appears doubtful whether she could pilot a coffee cup across a hash house...