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Orson Welles's aversion to advertising men who tell him how to produce his radio shows was a moving factor in his decision last week to give up the Lockheed-Vega show, Ceiling Unlimited, after the 13th broadcast next month...
...soon there would be no more. Robert DeWayne Parker thought this over as he drove 15 miles to his electrical job in Douglas Aircraft's Santa Monica plant. Earl Perkins puzzled over it as he drove 16 miles to his radio job on the bomber assembly line of Vega's plant. Parker worked near Perkins' home, Perkins worked near Parker...
When his plane came down at Burbank, it landed beside the great Lockheed and Vega plants that cover nearly 400 acres. Hundreds of war planes, complete and incomplete, stood in the fields outside the guarded buildings. TWA's stratoliner roared off with him toward the darkening east, above the clouds, over the Painted Desert, past the San Francisco Mountains, whose highest peak rises higher than sacred Fujiyama. When the plane came down at Albuquerque (on another huge new Army air field) Saburo Kurusu had already flown in the U.S. farther than from Shanghai to Chungking. And he was less...
John Knudsen Northrop, 45, has designed such crack planes as the Lockheed Vega, the Army's A17, but it became evident last week that a big part of his heart and head was really in something very different. For, like most U.S. aircraft manufacturers, Northrop is an incurable visionary...
...this same constitution which finally upset the Arias applecart. A handsome man of 40 who dresses like a fashion plate, Dr. Arias fancies himself a lady-killer. Last month, when he and his good friend Anita de la Vega spent a pleasant week in Costa Rica settling a border dispute, he remembered the wording of his own constitution. Before leaving the country he obtained the formal consent of his Cabinet. This time he went to Cuba to see his "eye doctor" about a little trouble. But this time he neglected to get the Cabinet's consent...