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William B. Stout was not its "original designer" but rather the visionary promoter who persuaded Henry Ford to make three-engined passenger aircraft...
...gang members were vocationally talented; they drilled 48 holes to remove a panel in a stout oak door of the Dulwich College museum without tripping an alarm attached to the frame. Their taste in art was impeccable; they snatched eight old masters worth some $7,000,000, including three Rembrandts (among them the widely admired A Girl at a Window). What they had not figured out was who would pay them for their night's work. The college was heavily in debt, and in no position to afford a ransom. None of the works were insured, a fact that...
...Bushmaster got its start in 1954, when the Tri-Motor's original designer, William B. Stout, got the aircraft's design rights back from Ford, formed the Hayden Aircraft Corp., in Bellflower, Calif., with a group of Douglas engineers. Lack of money stalled them until Williams, another Douglas alumnus and the owner of Hydroforming, an aircraft-parts-making company, bought a controlling interest in Hayden in 1958. Williams was sure that "an updated version of the Tri-Motor was just the plane to fill the gaps" left in workaday air transport by the emphasis on faster jet aircraft...
...French and British are already cutting metal for their Concorde, the Russians expect to fly their version in 1968, and the U.S. is expected to decide by Jan. 1 which of two fiercely competing designs, Lockheed's or Boeing's, it will finally build. Reporter Bill Stout examines the problems and promise of the giant planes...
...Irish truck driver's son who bubbled up through the Labor Party's ranks to the No. 2 spot like the suds on a pint of warm stout, Brown has been defying the staid frock-coat-and-homburg image of a diplomat ever since he arrived at Whitehall four months ago for his first day of work. While senior foreign officers ceremoniously gathered out front to greet the new man, Brown slipped in the back door and went to work. In what the Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about...