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...this new military age for the quiet man in the big picture who sits and thinks and thereby saves lives and deters wars. Once Arthur Radford was one of the hottest pilots in the Navy, leading an aerial stunt team called the High. Hatters, even standing in as stuntman for Clark Gable in the epic Hell Divers. But one of his wingmen of those days now prefers to dwell upon the solid and undramatic way that Radford led his men on the routine patrols. "Raddy had it even then, as a lieutenant commander," the wingman says. "You could...
Everybody in the R.A.F. had heard of Dick and David Atcherley, the flying twins. Dick was the stuntman:he clowned his way to fame in prewar days by chasing cottontail rabbits in a souped-up biplane, dragging one wingtip in the dust at 80 m.p.h. David was more conventional: he commanded a peacetime fighter squadron at the age of 34. In the Battle of Britain, the flying Atcherleys were among the famed few to whom so many owed so much. In 1950, both became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
Other cheapie-makers who substitute ingenuity for money: Stuntman John Carpenter, who shot a full-length feature (Son of the Renegade) in 5½ days for $18,200; Boris Petroff, who buys up stock shots (i.e., background film), then fills in the stories with inexpensive actors; Herman Cohen, who frankly makes cheapies for the No. 2 spot on double bills; Albert Zugsmith, who arrived in Hollywood two years ago to make TV films, now has four cheapies ready for theater release; William F. Broidy, who put out such pictures as Steel Fist and Sea Tiger for less than...
...aerial stuntman in the '20s and as a commercial airline pilot in the '30s, James Henry Carmichael earned a reputation for smart flying. Since becoming president of Capital Airlines in 1947, "Slim" Carmichael has shown the same talent for piloting an airline. He took over Capital when it was losing more than $2,000,000 a year, cut costs by slashing his staff to the bone and boosted business by starting cut-rate coach service. In 4½-years, he pulled Capital out of its nose dive, climbed to a $1,756,490 profit...