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...passenger, all-metal monoplane with a cruising speed of 185 m.p.h., it outmoded practically all former equipment, became standard on most major U. S. airlines. When a DC2 took second place in the 1934 MacRobertson air race from England to Australia, was beaten only by a special racer, Europe too "went Douglas." By last week, the booming Douglas plant at Santa Monica had delivered not only 81 DC-2's in the U. S. at $80,000 apiece, but 49 in Holland, Java, Batavia, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Australia, China, Japan...
...Marcel Tabuteau, first oboist, make a woodwind pair outstanding when the Philadelphians undertake Debussy. Flutist Kincaid trains vigorously each summer at Lake Sebago, Me. Leon Frengut, a viola player, takes his recreation at the racetracks. Samuel Lifschey, leader of the viola section, has been a six-day bicycle racer, a dentist, a pharmacist, an engineer. Yarnspinner of the Orchestra is Trombonist Eddie Gerhard. Bill Greenberg, a viola player, proved himself a practical musician when he thought of the paper dickeys which the Philadelphians now wear instead of uncomfortable stiff shirts. Schima Kaufman values his typewriter next to his fiddle...
Booming along between 3,000 and 4,000 ft., the Sun Racer crossed the Alleghenies in a cold fog. Over the radiotelephone from the airport at Pittsburgh came reassuring word of good visibility below 1,700 ft. Pilot Ferguson listened to the staccato hum of the radio-beacon in his earphones, reported his position as ten miles east of Pittsburgh, said he was coming down to land. Nellie Granger poked her head into the pilot's cabin, asked him what time they would be down. Said Ferguson, "About 10:12." The hostess went aft, saw that the eleven passengers...
...Pittsburgh airport the minutes ticked by. At 10:33 a TWA plane landed, but it was not the Sun Racer. Soon the air was full of monotonous, unanswered calls: Pittsburgh calling Flight I. . . . Columbus calling Ferguson on Flight I. . . . Camden calling Flight I. . . . Pittsburgh calling Flight...
Nellie Granger, registered nurse, insisted on returning to the wreck with mountaineers. Near the smoking debris of the Sun Racer they found still alive the two passengers who had occupied seats Nos. 7 and 11. One was Mrs. Ellenstein, with two broken legs, the other a Cleve-lander named Challinor, whose ankles were shattered. Miss Granger ministered to them as best she could until State troopers arrived. Later, in a hospital, the hostess could not remember exactly what had happened. She thought she had been able to pull the Newark Mayor's wife and Challinor from the cabin before...