Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working round the clock, Ryan gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word...
Inferno (20th Century-Fox). Robert Ryan, a young man about as rich as they come and as worthless as they go, is junketing in the great American Desert, along with his wife (Rhonda Fleming) and the man she secretly loves (William Lundigan). When Ryan falls from his horse and breaks a leg, the lovers ride off, leaving him to dry up and die in the staring sun. Ryan, whose spirit normally comes from a bottle, nevertheless finds the will to fight his way back to safety and salvation. The drama is high, but it would have been much heightened...
...Odor of Dead Fish. At wit's end by Feb. 3, 1927, Lindbergh dashes off a telegram to an almost unknown San Diego outfit called Ryan Airlines, gets an answer back the next day: "Can build plane . . . Delivery about three months." Lindbergh heads for the coast, finds Ryan Airlines in a dilapidated waterfront building with no flying field, no hangar, no sound of engines-only the pervasive odor of dead fish from a nearby cannery. But the competent chief engineer, Donald Hall, impresses Lindbergh. The order is placed. With five other transatlantic flights poised to go, a race against...
Trying to make the best of it, Ryan implied that suspension was merely a legal device to give him more time. "If the council wanted me out," said he, "it would have said so." But Meany made it obvious to reporters that he hoped suspension would bring on an I.L.A. revolt that would both depose Ryan and keep the union within the A.F.L. Asked whether he thought the I.L.A.'s present leaders could do an effective cleanup job, Meany gave an unequivocal answer...
Born. To Lord Ogilvy, 27, heir to the 300-year-old Scottish earldom of Airlie and Lady Ogilvy, 20, the former Virginia Fortune Ryan, daughter of New York Socialite John Barry Ryan: their first child, a daughter; in London. Name: Doune Mabell. Weight...