Word: puglisi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flying the "fireball run" between Miami and India, personal pilot for President Eisenhower since 1950, when Ike was Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe. Copilot is Iowa-born Lieut. Colonel William Thomas, 39, veteran of the Hump and Berlin airlift; navigator is Brooklyn-born Lieut. Colonel Vincent Puglisi, 41. Filling out the rest of the crew are a third pilot (who sits in for Draper or Thomas when either leaves his station), two flight engineers, a radio operator and three stewards (who always check with Draper to make sure that the plane is not headed for turbulent weather...
...Lewis concentrated his studies on the color-press room, learned by interviewing the 240 men who worked there that the symptoms were most marked in the winter, when the heat was on and the windows closed. After more tests with two of the most persistent sufferers, Printers Angelo Puglisi and William Grimes, Dr. Lewis consulted Skin Specialist Dr. Louis Schwartz, concluded that the reaction was similar to the reaction of drinkers to Antabuse, the anti-alcoholism drug which produces nausea and other physical disorders (TIME, Oct. 29, 1951). Then he learned that the company had recently doubled the amount...
Judd & Detweiler switched to another antiscum compound. The boys started hoisting them again. Said happy Printer Puglisi last week: "Nobody's sick around here any more...
...cartographers, Vince Puglisi and Jere Donovan, helping him in our map room, but his own work in and on TIME (cover map of liberated Paris, Sept. 4, 1944, and the map of Jerusalem cover, Aug. 26, 1946) has been so prolific in the past 18 years that some readers can't believe it was done by one man - or even one generation. One reader wrote Chapin: "I've enjoyed the maps that you and your father have done for TIME...
...crew is handpicked. Assisting Draper, who doubles as presidential Air Force aide, are Majors William W. Thomas, the copilot, and Vincent Puglisi, the navigator. The five enlisted crewmen, all master sergeants, are graduates of Lockheed's factory school in Burbank, Calif. Every three months the pilots go through a rigid flight test under the gimlet eyes of top Air Force inspectors. Before each flight they plan how to buckle on Ike's parachute within 30 seconds. Before the President takes a trip, they may fly thousands of miles from Washington merely to practice instrument landings at his destination...