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...settled too often for the topical, at least the topics were compelling: racial prejudice (The Chequer Board); war's massacre of the innocents (Pied Piper)] the apocalypse of nuclear global suicide (On the Beach). At times Shute was notably prescient. In Ordeal (March 1939) he conjured up the spectacle of a bomb-battered England. Long before the Comet crashes, he visualized aircraft exploding from metal fatigue (No Highway). In an age of equivocal values, Shute took an authoritative, old-fashioned moral stance. His men were manly. His women were womanly and virtuous. Sex was linked to marriage; evil, when...
...record long-distance hops. To a bug-eyed audience he told an eye-bugging tale of a slight mishap on his nonstop flight from Casablanca to Los Angeles (7,688.48 mi.) last June, when he spent a sleepless 58 hr. 38 min. in the cockpit of a single-engined Piper Comanche. Just before taking off from Morocco, Pilot Conrad stuffed his navigational charts in a brown envelope, a clutch of unpaid bills in another. He handed what he believed to be the bills to a well-wishing U.S. consular official, then flew off crosswind, with a one-ton overload...
...airman who comes closest to matching the oldtime sense of personal challenge and adventure in the flying business is the record-seeking light-plane pilot. Last week Minnesota-born Max Conrad, 57, bumped onto the runway at El Paso's International Airport after soloing a little Piper Comanche a nonstop 6,911 miles across the Atlantic from Casablanca in 56 hr. 26 min., thereby breaking a record in his weight class...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Maxwell Anderson's classic Winter set, with Don Murray, Charles Bickford, George C. Scott and Piper Laurie. Color...
...kids, because I was flying a twin-engined Piper Apache across the Atlantic to Paris at the same time he was flying from Casablanca to Los Angeles. Near as I can figure it, we passed within a few hundred miles of each other out over the Atlantic...