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...they emerged from Briggs Cage a week or so ago, squad members have been pretty well split up. Milers and two-milers have been going along the river bank, "nice, easy speed up to Police Station and back" (a distance of 31/ miles), the pole-vaulters have used the runway under the Stadium grandstand, and most of the field men have warmed up out behind the baseball grandstand...
...ballroom of Paris' decorous Hotel George V, some coals were brought last week to Newcastle. From California, in two specially chartered DC-45, had come manufacturers and models to show Paris the spring styles of San Francisco's up-&-coming clothing industry. The Californians hedged a plush runway with 1,600 Ibs. of chrysanthemums ("blooming three days ago in California"), set up a blinding battery of klieg lights, and surrounded the show with enough hoopla to make the French take notice...
About ten hours before the landing at Brize Norton last week, the C-54 was taxied out on a runway at Stephenville, Newfoundland, and pointed in the general direction of London. Colonel J. M. Gillespie, her commander, pushed a button. From then on, the plane behaved as if an invisible crew were working her controls. The four engines roared for the takeoff, the brakes let go, the plane sped down the runway and climbed up over the Atlantic while the wheels retracted automatically. At 9,000 ft., it leveled off and headed for London at normal cruising speed...
...chartered British Skyways York, just in from Moscow, overshot the London airport runway and nosed over. From the crushed cabin, Britain's Secretary for Overseas Trade J. Harold Wilson emerged and said casually: "Now I have got to see a doctor as my ribs hurt me." Next day he went to tell his chief, Sir Stafford Cripps, that Britain's trade mission to Moscow had also crashed. It was unlikely that the mission would return to Russia...
...Quite a bit different from last summer," said Bert Haines the other day as he stood at the top of the Weld Bost Club dock-runway. There was one oarsman shoving off in a wherry, a couple more running themselves against the wall of the Boat Club, a few swimming off the end of the dock...