Word: pilots
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pilot, Boston's official Catholic weekly, Bishop Lord's questions were "ridiculous," and to show why, the paper addressed a few contentious questions of its own to a possible Methodist candidate. Samples...
Outside the office, Mueller likes to read economics, enjoys bridge, plays golf in the 80s. In 1938, when his wife (who died last year) gave him a plane as a Christmas present, he qualified as a pilot, survived one crash and went on to organize the Grand Rapids Civil Air Patrol, still has a passion for flying, though he gave up piloting in 1951. Friends say Fritz Mueller looks younger than he did when he came to Washington in 1955. "I happen to enjoy the stimulation of challenge," said he, "and Washington is the place to find stimulation...
...World War II movie titled Mountain Road, stepped front and center, got an almost-legal field promotion. The film's technical adviser, retired Army Brigadier General Frank Dorn, pinned stars on the collar of "Major" Stewart's soiled fatigue uniform. Cinemactor Stewart, a World War II bomber pilot and group commander (20 missions), had just got word from Washington that the Senate Armed Services Committee had unanimously approved his promotion to real-life brigadier rank. His upgrading had been blocked since 1957 by Maine's unyielding Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, his own light-colonel sister (retired...
...handled similar chores. No one on the Steel Hour sees any reason to search for a new formula. Even in the summer, when other shows are sneaking by with reruns, the Steel Hour will remain live, with lively casts, the names familiar from countless Broadway marquees. Like the careful pilot who wants to be not the hottest guy in the air. merely the oldest, the Steel Hour will settle for its present status: the oldest live dramatic show on television...
Died. Albert Fisk, 68, pioneer aeronautical engineer who developed the Sperry Gyroscope Co.'s automatic pilot and other flight instruments, gyrocompasses, high-intensity searchlights and ship stabilizers during the course of research that spanned two world wars; of a heart attack; in Tucson, Ariz...