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From the outside, Ambassador Davies' *Mission to Moscow; Simon & Schuster; $3. Moscow mission looked like some super Sinclair Lewis saga of a Babbitt among the Bolsheviks. A rich, self-made corporation lawyer from Wisconsin, he ran Woodrow Wilson's Western campaign in 1912, later headed the Federal Trade Commission, in 1913 refused the Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square...
Life with Father (TIME, Nov. 20, 1939). Gay, apparently deathless saga of a rambunctious paterfamilias during Manhattan's horsecar...
...later the boat, with its truncated wing raffish as an empty tooth socket, turned up at a United Kingdom seaport, lurched to a landing. Somehow its pilots had straightened it out, just off the water, flown it in-with no banking controls. It was another incredible episode in the saga of the Catalina, which the U.S. Navy calls...
...Saga. What first catches the layman's eye in the Cat's yard is not the wide-winged PBYs with their tapered tails, but the graceful, powerful forms, of immense four-motored bombers resting on tricycle landing gears. These are the newest brothers of the Cat: the B-24s. The British call them Liberators. These big bombers are 4,000 pounds bigger than Boeing's famed Flying Fortresses. The B-24 has already followed the Cat into the war in Europe...
Today, as Rube Fleet works his 15-to-18-hour day, driving, berating, wheedling for speed, more speed, the saga of Consolidated craft grows & grows. It was a PBY that found the Bismarck, called up the warships for her destruction. A B-24 crossed the Atlantic from Newfoundland in the record time of seven hours, 30 minutes. This week the Air Forces' Major Alva Harvey is back in the U.S. after a routine flight around the world in a B24. From the shores of the British Isles (and probably in the Mediterranean), patrols of 24 hours and more...