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...meet the fanciful ideas of a Texan who wanted to fly a group of friends to Vancouver for a weekend, Bob Prescott painted one of his planes like a totem pole, wore a cowpuncher's outfit while piloting...
...Tigers are not an all-freight line yet: more than $1.5 million of last year's revenue came from special charter jobs; another $961,000 came from repairing and maintaining ships of foreign airlines. As Robert William Prescott, 37, the hustling Tiger president, put it: "We've had to get our development money wherever we could find it." Prescott found it by flying anything, anywhere, at any time, from railroad wheels and loads of gravel to globe-girdling tours for college students, and the Pacific airlift (TIME, Aug. 21). Other jobs...
...When the United Jewish Appeal decided to repatriate 35,000 Yemenite Jews from Southern Arabia, it hired the Tigers to fly them back home-thus, said Prescott, fulfilling the Biblical prophecy that the Yemenites would be returned to Judea on the wings of an angel...
...line has also drummed up a steady business in transporting corpses (it was sued for "mental anguish" by relatives when one shipment was delayed). This spring it added the Furniture Manufacturers' Association of Southern California as a steady customer. Prescott convinced the association that it could save on crating, ship cheaper by air than by the railroads' less-than-carload lots...
...Senate seat now warmed by Adman Bill Benton (Bowles's old partner in Benton & Bowles) looked a little more inviting. Mitchell put his influence behind a hearty, handsome Wall Street banker named Prescott Bush,-who played first base at Yale (1915-17), likes to dance the polka with the Polish girls and join in singing "the old songs" at political rallies. Bush was opposed by starchy Vivien Kellems, a Stonington manufacturer, one of the few Americans who is far enough to the right to be considered patriotic by Westbrook Pegler. Vivien stopped the roll call when it reached...