Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trenchcoat model, but a variety of raincoats of Egyptian imported (via Britain) cotton are available to the well-dressed man this year. (Macintosh is the brand name to remember). This is of particular interest to the warm-blooded college man who tends to wear his raincoat for a year-round coat...
...help, plus the advantage of one of the fastest aircraft now flying, Lieut. Gustav B. Klatt, 29, set a new 2,419-mile west-to-east record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec., landed at New Jersey's McGuire A.F.B. Captain Robert M. Sweet, 30, flying nonstop round trip (4,838 miles), broke the east-to-west record (despite 40-to-150-m.p.h. head winds) in 3 hr. 34 min. 8.8 sec. When he blinked past his home base, Sweet clocked a round-trip record-6 hr. 42 min. 6.7 sec.-averaging 721.9 m.p.h. For the trip...
...slowpokes were the other two Voodoo pilots: Captain Ray Schrecengost, 31, flew the round trip at an average speed of 671.4 m.p.h.; Captain Robert Kilpatrick, 32, flew the first leg (landing at McGuire) averaging 765.68 m.p.h. Rewards for all four: the Distinguished Flying Cross to Sweet and Klatt, Air Medals to Schrecengost and Kilpatrick...
...Bound with him for Europe was his bride of five months, long-legged, luscious Cinemactress Kay (Les Girls) Kendall. The couple were headed for a seven-week holiday in Switzerland, then to Paris, where Kay will wrestle with Rex in a movie titled The Reluctant Debutante. When April trips round again next year, Harrison will be doing business in the same old stance-as misogynous Professor 'Enry 'Iggins in the London version of Lady...
...flight is a co-operative non-profit venture, with round-trips costs not exceeding $330. The plane will leave Idle-wild Airport for London and Paris June 15 and return September...