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...three airlines mentioned in your May 16 Time Clock item as "non-scheduled"airlines are Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle. All three are scheduled, certificated airlines. They were certificated on the claim that there should be scheduled service devoted exclusively to freight . . . Also, the item says that the three have just won CAB permission to fly mail at 18½? per ton-mile v. 45? for scheduled lines. What the three were seeking was the right to carry 3? mail at 18½? per ton-mile, which is the rate at which 3? mail is currently being carried...
...that stands in the way of the three is American Airlines. The request to the court for an interpretation of the law covering this matter was also made by Eastern, T.W.A., and United. The court suggested that CAB not proceed with its plan to give surface mail to Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle pending a court hearing on the legality of the plan. CAB agreed...
...onetime racket-busting assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, he has been around long enough to know that buying a piece of a fighter is one sure way to buy underworld class-it gives a guy the taint of respectability. So when Helfand tried to find out why a slick young welterweight named Vince Martinez was getting the brushoff from matchmakers, it was not exactly news that witnesses began to mumble about a Murder Inc. alumnus named Frankie Carbo...
...same tearing roar of Meyer-Drake Offenhauser racing engines will racket above the oil-slick brick and asphalt. Once more, when the green flag drops, the wheeled buckets of power will whisk past the pace car into the first laps of the most popular sport spectacle in the U.S. Memorial Day will have come back to the Midwest with the 39th running of America's car-racing classic: the Indianapolis 500. The cars will be faster than ever this year, the drivers as daring, and the spectators will get their thrills. But for the first time in the memory...
...Reporter John Bartlow Martin, 39, who lives in Chicago, started writing at i/ to 2? a word for pulp crime and detective magazines, graduated to Harper's, which averages $250 to $350 a piece, and finally also began selling to Satevepost and other slick magazines. Says he: "I like every thing about freelancing, with the exception of the lack of security. Sometimes it's four to six months between checks, and that creates problems for my grocer and everybody else." One writer who no longer worries about the grocery bills is Frank J. Taylor, 60, dean...