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...skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas he kept himself in sharp clothes by working on local newspapers, later took "The All America Super Jazz Orchestra" to Mexico. After years of reporting (on the New York Mirror, Birdwell scored a beat on Lindbergh's take-off for Paris), the Bird found his perch as publicity man for David O. Selznick...
...great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly in the saddle at the take-off point instead of lifting up to urge his mount over the barrier...
Thirty-five minutes after take-off at 4:05 a.m., Flight 607E radioed a routine report that it was about 100 miles out over the Atlantic. When a next report, due every 5° of longitude, did not come in, a "phase of uncertainty" was declared, during which all stations and planes were urged to look and listen for the plane. Half an hour later, an emergency was declared. Ten hours passed before an R.A.F. Coastal Command plane, scouring the sea some 40 minutes out from the Irish coast, spotted traces of oil. Coming down to 100 ft., the pilot...
...served as "coat stuffer" for that old vaudevillian. By 1955 Freberg was well established as a minor comic in TV and a far-out satirist on records. His liveliest: a drama of passion whose only dialogue consisted of the words "John" and "Marsha"; St. George and the Dragonet, a take-off on Jack Webb's Dragnet, which sold 1,000,000 records in three weeks...
Point of Commitment. Plane Commander Broustas, an 5,000-hour Strategic Air Force veteran and one of the most experienced of all KC-135 pilots, got his take-off clearance from Westover Tower at 12:30. Broustas acknowleged the tower, moved his four throttles up to full power, released his brakes and began to roll. The plane picked up speed but not quickly; it was carrying thousands of pounds of fuel. It passed its V-1 and V-2 marks-the last point for chopping throttles, and the point of commitment to take-off-and broke ground exactly...