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Flight Refuelling Ltd. has ten specially trained pilots, four Lancaster bombers converted into tankers, and a set of gadgets which Managing Director Sir Alan Cobham, 53, pioneer refueling fan, believes have eliminated the dangers and difficulties of refueling. Among the most important is a system of electronic beacons with which the planes can find one another, even in soupiest weather...
Promising Trial. Last summer the flying tankers, rising from a field in the Azores, refueled 21 nonstop flights from London to Bermuda. Every contact went smoothly. If the North Atlantic trials show the same excellent performance, Sir Alan predicts that many airlines will adopt his system...
...news rarely makes the front pages-unless it is such musicomedy stuff as the "Hollywood hearings." In general, the U.S. is covered by such grab-bag gossips as Don Iddon (in the Mail) and C. V. R. Thompson (in the Express). Without such serious correspondents as Sir Willmott Lewis of the Times and Alistair Cooke, the Manchester Guardian's man at U.N., and the shrewd jotters of the "American Survey" in Geoffrey Crowther's Economist, an American in London would feel hopelessly cut off from home...
...mutiny from below. It was the National Union of Journalists that started the parliamentary ball rolling for a Royal Commission to investigate whether Britain's press is monopolistic. Now that the commission has settled down to work, the press isn't so alarmed. Oxford's Sir William David Ross, the chairman, is a gentleman and a scholar, and no man to let Labor...
...required by law to submit everything," he says, "but God help you if you don't." He knows that the Post will face a heavier responsibility as the British pull out. The best tribute the Post has had came from the British High Commissioner on its tenth birthday. Sir Harold MacMichael congratulated the paper for "stating facts fairly, respecting confidences and avoiding equally sensationalism, snobbery and cheap insinuation...