Word: slim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baltusrol's lower course had been redesigned by famed Golf-Course Architect Robert Trent Jones (see box). Its slim fairways were stretched out to 7,027 yards and its bunkers and greens were scientifically remodeled-at a cost of $50,000-to test the skill of the most accurate golfer...
...Mans, France, a sturdy Italian Ferrari sports car, driven by Argentina's Jose Froilan Gonzalez and France's Maurice Trintignant, clocked an impressive 2,523.4 miles in the grinding, 24-hour Le Mans Grand Prix Endurance Race to finish a slim 2.4 miles ahead of last year's winners, Tony Rolt and Duncan Hamilton in their English Jaguar. In third place, with a total of 2,355 miles: an American Cunningham Special driven by Sherwood Johnston and William Spear. In fifth: Briggs Cunningham himself in another Cunningham Special...
...towering (6 ft. 4 in.) Slim Carmichael the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount seemed custom-made for Capital. It is powered by four Rolls-Royce turboprops (i.e., gas-turbine engines that drive propellers), can carry 48 passengers at a cruising speed of 335 m.p.h. In service with British European Airways, Air France and Air Lingus, the Viscount has proved an economical operator over medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour...
...good part of its fleet of DC-3s and DC-4s. One big advantage: the Viscount can operate from all but three of the 51 fields on Capital's routes, whereas Capital's Constellations cannot operate from 15, and its DC-4s cannot operate from ten. Says Slim Carmichael: "This plane puts us close to the airline operator's ideal. . . . to serve the entire route with one type of plane and one type of engine...
Carmichael, who got a flying start as a barnstormer years ago and was a commercial airline pilot and airline executive for years before becoming president of Capital in 1947, will be the first to fly British planes over U.S. commercial routes. But Slim Carmichael is not scared by innovation. Six years ago, he launched the first air-coach service. It has not only helped pull Capital out of the red (to a net of $1,652,289 in 1953), but has since been copied by every other major U.S. airline...