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Captain Josef Klesnil, pilot of the plane from Brno, had flown 17 minutes on his northeasterly course when copilot and radioman pulled pistols on him. They ordered him to turn southwest. "Don't joke," said Klesnil. "If you go against our wishes," said the mutineers, "we'll blow your brains out." For more than an hour, with pistols at his head, the captain flew southwest, beyond the Czech border to Munich, in the U.S. zone of Germany...
...what chiefly upset Educator Hutchins was a radioman's suggestion that the low U.S. cultural level, if it is low, is primarily the fault of educators. Wrote Hutchins: "Even a perfect educational system would have a hard time setting up an effective cultural opposition to the storm of trash and propaganda that now beats upon the American from birth . . . Comic books and Betty Grable, the Lone Ranger and Milton Berle are the diet of our children." The only hope, Hutchins thinks, is subscription radio or heavily endowed university networks-neither of which seems likely. His gloomy conclusion...
...with Richard Diamond, a Dick Powell $4,500 thriller. Amos 'n' Andy reportedly may have to slice their $20,000 price tag if they remain on the air. Burns & Allen, a $12,000 package last year, is now said to be selling for $8,500. Gloomed one radioman: "The handwriting on the wall is getting bigger and redder than ever, and these are the days when people in the radio business are reading it like bad news bulletins...
...Radioman Trippodi hung in his chute in excruciating pain. He had come down in a treetop near the peak of a steep, 4OO-ft. incline. Trying to unbuckle his harness, he slipped. His foot caught in the leg strap and he had hung head down, helpless. Next morning two of the flyers found him still hanging there. They cut him free, wrapped him in his parachute, and put him in a bed of spruce boughs; but they themselves were too weak to get him down the cliff...
...years later Greece and Turkey were at war in Asia Minor. Having worked hard at correspondence courses, Godfrey finally had to choose between waiting for an appointment to the Naval Academy or shipping as radioman third class on a destroyer flotilla heading for the Mediterranean. "I had missed World War I," he says, "and I wasn't going to miss this...