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...aviation. As president and controlling stockholder of Colonial, he pushed it up from a pipsqueak line to a sizable airline flying 68 million passenger-miles a year over 3,182 miles of scheduled air lanes. Last week Colonial Airlines, with no explanation, issued a cryptic announcement: Sig Janas was out, and a new president, Alfons Landa, was running the line with the help of a new executive committee. No airman, 53-year-old Landa is a Washington lawyer, who is a director of the American Institute of Management and had done some legal work for the line. Said one Colonial...
...they getting? To find out, a special committee of the National Association of Radio News Directors took a one week look at the four news associations (Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, Transradio Press). Last week, the committee issued a 12,000-word report described by N.A.R.N.D. President Sig Mickelson as a "fact-finding rather than a fault-finding project." If not faults, the committee found plenty coming," of the flaws. report "The most declared, "is glaring in short the field of writing." Some press associations "use their radio circuits to break in green men: When they begin...
Toni Matt's record for the American Inferno in 1939, when he skied 3.8 miles from the top of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch, N.H., with a vertical descent of 4,300 feet, is 6 minutes 30 seconds. Sig Engl plummeted down Mt. Lassen, Calif, in 1940 over a course a shade under a mile and a half, dropping 1,800 feet in 1 minute 35 seconds. Steve Knowlton covered a course on the Grossglockner in Austria in June 1945, in 55 seconds for nearly a mile, to win the downhill race conducted by the Tenth Mountain Division...
...Delta Sig chapter at U.C.L.A. extends an invitation to Mr. Morton ... to come to breakfast, lunch or dinner. No prior notice will be required; just drop in ... 40? for breakfast, 60? for lunch, and 85? for dinner. I defy him to match our prices and food . . . Ketchup is on the house...
While still an insignificant Sig, Caniff imitated John Held Jr., tried editorial cartoons for the Columbus Dispatch. He was jobless in 1932 when the Associated Press Feature Service beckoned him on to New York...