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...first week of public hearings, the Crime Commission got a good look at four live I.L.A. operators. Big Frank Russo, a pier boss, admitted that he had received $1,400-plus an unspecified amount of "vacation money." Sullen, hulking Fred Marino testified that he was elected shop steward of local 327, denied earlier testimony that he had demanded that the Luckenbach Lines bar all cops and FBI agents from his pier. Anthony Delmar, Brooklyn pier boss, was sworn in while holding up his left hand, contributed little that was either sinister or helpful. Jerry Anastasio, one of the notorious brothers...
...Bermuda pilot boat, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Yakutat and a Kindley base crash boat raced out through whitecaps, pulled four survivors (including the steward) from the edge of a circle of burning gasoline 500 yards across; 37 others were drowned or burned to death...
...Bermuda's Kindley Field before dawn one day last week. Just after the takeoff, one of the four engines of the Madrid-to-Havana plane faltered. "I was just going to run to the front of the cabin and warn the passengers when we hit the water," Steward Orlando Lopez Suarez later recalled. "The tail broke off ... I found a rubber dinghy, but it was punctured and would not inflate . . . then the plane sank and I guess the other people sank because they had their seat belts fastened...
...Constellation. The blast from the right inboard engine whipped his tattered shirt, but Felix only curled his bare toes tighter around the housing. Spectators at the terminal building spotted the figure behind the strut, and gestured in mute horror as the plane sped by. Joseph Hernandez, the flight steward, caught the meaning of their signals just in time to see the big double wheel leave the ground, with Felix still clinging tight, and fold forward into the wing...
...almost to lake-size, but travelers could still relax in a deck chair and feel suspended in time for a week-on the older, sedater liners (the S.S. United States last month crossed in 3 days 10 hrs. 40 min., barely enough time to make friends with the deck steward). In 1927, a daring young man in a flying crate, name of Lindbergh, made his way from New York to Paris in 33½ hrs. Millions who have followed his route since then-immersed in mystery stories, poker or the semistupor of Dramamine-have scarcely bothered to note the once...