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Borne on a friendly tail wind, the big, potbellied C-97 reached the California coast nearly an hour ahead of schedule. The pilot radioed ahead for instructions, and the word came back: slow down. By the time the plane touched ground at Travis Air Force Base and taxied into the television and newsreel lights one night last week, everything was in readiness. Air police tried to hold back a cheering crowd of 500. As soon as the ramp was lowered, a beaming woman hurried up into the outstretched arms of her husband. There, in the relative privacy...
Next week bachelor Joe McCarthy, 43, will make a place in his life for tail, auburn-haired Jean Kerr, 29, "the most beautiful girl" at George Washington University in 1945 and for four years a research assistant in McCarthy's office. Said the prospective bridegroom: "She's the prettiest and brainiest girl I've ever known. She got beside me when things were darkest." From Time Magazine, Sept...
...been by passed by the Communist Viet Minh forces on their way into Laos. Under the broiling sun the colonel in command, walking disconsolately along the airstrip, looked up as he heard the sound of air craft engines. Within seconds a C-47 airplane, its wings and tail riddled by Red ack-ack fire, rolled onto the runway. The pilot braked it to a stop and his passenger, a prim, neat little man wearing the four stars of a full general, climbed out. The astonished colonel clicked to attention, saluted, and said: "I was not expecting you, general...
...hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital to grow." Those who measure value by dividends he likens to a man who believed "that a dog could be judged by the size of its tail . . . Many of the mutts which he bought, without looking at anything but their attractive tails, were on their last legs. The first rule of investment should be: never mind what it pays [in dividends...
...merely hunting a way to use idle equipment during the slow night hours. Passengers who were willing to take off in the middle of the night got bargain rates. Other airlines were quick to copy Capital. Started as a sideline, air-coach service is now the tail that wags the wings...