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...controls during this spectacular maneuver was Polish-born Test Pilot Janusz Zurakowski, who had worked out the first new aerobatic stunt in 20 years.* Squat, studious-looking Pilot Zurakowski flew with the R.A.F. after escaping from a Nazi prison camp, has three Luftwaffe kills and three probables to his credit. One day about a year ago, at a test-pilot school bull session, the discussion got around to the maneuverability of the Gloster Meteor. "Zura," a test pilot for the Gloster Aircraft Co., said the plane was good enough to do a "Fin Sling," a cartwheel-like stunt...
...Haven played the part of host as well as it could. The bars were crowded streets Jammed and hotels packed. At the game some funnymen pulled off a long, mysterious stunt between halves, a blue smoke bomb from the Eli stands annoyed many, and the Band's "Substitutions Unlimited" pleased even more...
Brown worked as a movie stunt man. His wife died in an automobile accident. In 1940 he joined the California State Guard and, fatefully enough, was attached to a unit which had its headquarters at Marion Davies' children's clinic. But he married Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's exwife, Grace. He attended a maritime officers' school, went to sea, and ended up as a skipper of Navy tankers. During one of his long voyages, the ex-Mrs. Tibbett divorced him. On subsequent homecomings his slight acquaintanceship with Miss Davies finally blossomed into real friendship. She introduced...
Fowler vs. Swift, the case, involves a schoolteacher, Fowler, who lost his job because the low-flying antics of stunt pilot Swift gave him a case of nerves. He sued and was awarded $3,500 on the count of negligence by the lower mock court on October...
...clairvoyance, the magazine had no report on what Stalin might think about its stunt. But many a reader was sure to feel that Collier's pat, "inevitable" outcome of the war made "Eggnog" somewhat hard to swallow...