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...Anything Happened." One day last week Saint-Exupéry's goddaughter rode high in the sky over the Atlantic. Dark-haired Suzanne Roig was the daughter of Georges Roig, an old friend of the novelist and one of France's pioneer aviators himself. "I'll never get tired of traveling," she wrote to a friend recently. Last week she was back at her job as stewardess of a huge Air France Constellation just making ready to come in for a landing at Azores' Santa Maria airfield. The sky around her ship was clear, and laced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AZORES: These Are the Paths | 11/7/1949 | See Source »

Planemaker Donald Douglas sat down in the Wings Club in Manhattan with the presidents of three airlines. Panagra's Harold J. Roig, American Airlines' A. N. Kemp and United Air Lines' W. A. Patterson. When Planemaker Douglas left, 12 minutes later, he had in his pocket the fattest airline contracts ever placed in the U.S. aircraft industry. The contracts gave Douglas the job of building 93 four-engined airliners, more than $50,000,000 worth, for postwar delivery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: The Fattest Contracts Ever | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Same day three anti-German agitators were put to death: one Szmul Tysselman, a Jewish emigre; one Henri Gautherot, a zealous French nationalist; one Jose Roig, a recruiter for De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Terror | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing in line to buy a fifth row seat in the shade. With a scream Candido Roig Roura pulled the espada from his chest and hurled it away. It landed in the lap of a sports reporter busily writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Double Play | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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