Word: sascha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus a loud, brash, and angry voice cried this week to the U.S. people. The voice belonged to Major Alexander Procofieff ("Sascha") de Seversky, who won all available decorations, and lost his right leg when he flew for his native Russia in World War I (see cut). Sascha de Seversky is now a columnist and author who designed and manufactured military aircraft in the U.S. before he turned to writing. Into a new book, Victory Through Air Power (Simon & Schuster; $2.50), he has crammed much knowledge, enthusiasm, bitterness, and a limitless faith in the airplane. The result is a blast...
Built on Long Island, the Thunderbolt is a lineal descendant of "Sascha" Seversky's P35 pursuit ship of 1937. Before the big rush of U.S. rearmament, Seversky's stockholders kicked out their mercurial president, thoroughly reorganized the company. But when the heat was really put on by the U.S. Army Air Forces last May, Republic Aviation Corp. (the new name) decided that it needed a big-league production man at its controls...
...being "the outstanding flyers of the world for 1939," the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs (headquarters: Manhattan) awarded the Harmon International Trophy to two New Yorkers: Jacqueline Cochran and Major Alexander P. ("Sascha") de Seversky. Pretty, 31-year-old Aviatrix Cochran is the wife of Wall Street Tycoon Floyd Odium, has won the award twice before.* In 1939 she became the first of her sex to make a blind landing, set five national and two international records, some of them in planes designed by Major Seversky. Sascha Seversky himself holds a handful of records despite having lost...