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...Cessna Aircraft Co. could find only one way to describe business: "Sales are booming, booming, booming." Like the rest of the U.S. light-plane industry, Cessna is indeed in the midst of the biggest peacetime boom in its history. In 1955's first quarter alone, Cessna, Beech and Piper, the three top private plane makers, sold more than 1,000 planes, worth $20.8 million, a full 40% better than last year. Reason: businessmen are flying nearly 4,000,000 hours annually, more than all the scheduled airlines put together...
...year the company sold 1,199 commercial planes, worth $15 million; this year it expects to hit $30 million and pass Beech in dollar-volume as the biggest private plane maker. Beech Aircraft Corp., which sold $22 million worth of commercial planes in 1954, is aiming at $26 million. Piper Aircraft Corp. will increase its sales from $11 million to $16 million...
...week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy, Gleason was playing a role not too far removed from his own Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners. He posed and postured as man of affairs, thinker, dude and cocksure authority on everything from high finance to socialism. As his embattled mother-in-law, Hollywood's Thelma (Rear Window) Ritter...
...Your article on General Chidlaw recalled my short but impressive acquaintance with him. In Italy, in 1944, the general (then, one star) invited me on a ride in his Piper Cub to "look over some new airfields." I happily accepted. As we kept flying north and beyond the front lines at less than 2,000 feet, it developed the general had neglected to mention that the new airfields were still in enemy hands. My concern was no doubt ill-concealed because the general turned to me, showed me his .45 and said, "Don't worry, we're armed...
Prince Ali had gone up north to hunt, and to look in on his plantations near the Soviet frontier, but planned to return to Teheran for the Shah's 35th birthday celebration. When he arrived at the airstrip at Gurgan, the pilot of his single-engined Piper pointed to the snow-capped mountains wreathed in ominous clouds, but the prince was anxious to start home. Before he took off, Ali did an act of kindness: into his plane he loaded an old peasant ill with tuberculosis, who needed immediate hospitalization. Then the plane, carrying prince and peasant, headed...