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...planes were mostly stripped-down ex-Army pursuits-wax-covered P-38s, fat-bellied P-51 Mustangs, and a Kingcobra with two feet chopped off each wing. They roared down the runway at the Van Nuys airfield, zoomed above the Hollywood hills...
...rolling into the aisle and put a fold in the whalebone corset of someone's spinster aunt. Not since Stinky and Shorty pervaded the atmosphere of the Old Howard has this Hub sniffed anything resembling Lahr's patter, and not since Margie Hart twisted her ankle on a faulty runway have Beacon Hill Burghers seen-even on the sly-a morsel like Irene Allarie, who bumps her svelte way through a colorful unveiling that is guaranteed to wilt even the stiffest of straw hats among the Summer Theatre...
...night was drizzly and starless, but in the last hours of June the forecast was for clearing weather. By July's first dawn, the blacktopped, coral runway of Kwajalein islet was ablaze with lights. It was Able-day for Operation Crossroads and the explosion of the world's fourth atomic bomb...
...listened to their troubles, cheered them out of their loneliness. Most of the time she was heavily engaged in defeating the elaborate stratagems of overambitious wolves. But it never upset her brisk good humor. Sample brush-off: "No bridgehead, enjine-eer! You can't make a runway outa these soft shoulders...
...Moisant International Airport, the only major U.S. municipal field to be completed during the war. New Orleans still sends only two flights south each day to rival Miami's 34, but when four-engined stratospheric giants take over the Latin American shuttle, Moisant's 7,000-ft. runway will be an insignificant hour and 50 minutes farther from Rio and Buenos Aires than Miami...