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...Great American Broadcast (20th Century-Fox) is Darryl Zanuck's conception of how radio broadcasting was born. According to his version, it was sired by Jack Oakie in a thunderstorm on the roof of an abandoned sausage factory on the Jersey flats, with an assist from a barnstorming aviator (John Payne) and a nightclub singer (Alice Faye...
...pilot, who was out of his head, everybody was quietly hopeful of help, for before dark a circling plane had sighted the DC-3, whipped back to Vero Beach, ten miles away, for help. Captain O'Brien was still flying the plane through that morning's murderous thunderstorm. "Come on, Mac," he mumbled, "help me pull this wheel-we've got to get altitude." His copilot, B. M. Crabtree, had a broken leg. He sat cheerfully and waited...
Pilots give thunderstorms a wide berth if possible, for within their cores often lies turbulence in which no airplane can live. A half-hour after he had left Palm Beach, Pilot O'Brien was in the thunderstorm belt: the ship was snapped up into the most violent flying some of his veteran passengers had ever seen. Why he landed when he did is still a subject for investigation, which CAB started immediately. Meanwhile, Co-Pilot Crabtree quoted Captain O'Brien as saying that one of the aileron controls had snapped in the storm. If that should be found...
...thunderstorm which delayed it for nearly half an hour at Washington's airport, a Douglas DC-3 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines took off one night last week for Pittsburgh. Twenty-three minutes later, over the foothills of the Blue Ridge range near Lovettsville, Va., 36 miles west of Washington, something happened. Farmers attracted by a crash found the plane strewn over a clearing into which it had apparently plunged full tilt. Killed and mangled were all 21 passengers, its crew of four. The force of the crash was so great that, strapped in their seats, many of them were...
Edison the Man is a faithful, even reverent attempt to immortalize the Edison story on film. But like most posthumous at tempts to recreate the creative moments of great men - Beethoven scoring the Seventh Symphony while romping through a thunderstorm, Schubert conceiving the Unfinished Symphony because of heartbreak over a Hungarian minx - Edison's fine frenzies remain, with the past, unrecapturable...