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Show f-3v. .... -, WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK 1 I By LEMUEL F. PARTON (Consolidated Features WNU Service.) NEW YORK. It isn't only the heat thai is good news for soda-jerkers. soda-jerkers. It is an alumnus of their guild who develops a 57-passenger c , . , transport Ex-SodaJerker plan6i gait. Now Pours Oat ed at 3 50 S7-Man Planes miles per hour, and Sets an order for 40 of them, right away quick. The man from behind the counter is 36-year-old Jack Frye, president of the Transcontinental & "Western Air, Inc., for the last six years. He has been merging air companies com-panies the way he ambidex-trously ambidex-trously merged raspberry flips up through the depression years to the status of a high-rating aviation mogul. His new plane, the largest commercial land plane ever projected, will have a flying range of 4,000 miles and a ceiling of 30,000 feet. He says his fleet of 40 of these planes could hustle 16,000 troops into Alaska in 36 hours. Born in Sweetwater, Okla., Mr. Frye grew up and did his soda-jerking soda-jerking in. California. He nicked each pay check for something for the kitty, to buy into aviation. His first investment was in a series of flying lessons. He and his instructor instruc-tor then bought a battered old war veteran Curtiss Jenny and made it the nucleus of a flying school and an aerial taxi service. Standard Air Lines came later when two students, Paul E. Richter and Walter A. Hamilton joined young Mr. Frye in establishing estab-lishing it, operating between Los Angeles and Phoenix, Ariz. As one thing led to another, as they bought and merged companies, his associates moved along with bim and became executives of the T.W.A. Mr. Richter shared his las notable acquisition of aviation stook, when, in April, 1929, T.W.A. took over about 70,-000 70,-000 shares of the Lehman Bros, holdings In T.W.A. at two points above the market. Mr. Frye has kept right on flying as well as designing and financing airplanes, and in 1934 set up a record rec-ord in crossing from Los Angeles to Newark in 11 hours and 31 minutes. min-utes. Thirty-six years is young for a mogul. Last January, he married Helen Varner Vanderbilt. COMMANDER Edward Ellsberg's new novel, "Captain Paul," the fictional narrative of the life of John Paul Jones, is another reminder of Amer i c a n Another Writing penchant for Man Doubles as doubling in A Fighting Man a"d fighting. We have had Gen. Lew Wallace, with "Ben Hur," "Captain King" and all his other bell-ringing stories; Maj. John Thomasen, of the marines, author au-thor of "Fix Bayonets," and many other books and short stories and . one of the best writing men "of the country, regardless of weight or class; and of course Maj. Gen. "Hap" Arnold of the air corps, author au-thor of the long string of "Bruce" stories. As to Commander Ellsberg, his New Book is one of an increasing in-creasing number of his imprint which get loud applause from the critics. His spectacular feat in raising the submarine S-51, off Block island in 1925 first brought him to national attention. atten-tion. His first book, "On the Bottom," told the story of the S-51. Thereafter came "Pig-boats," "Pig-boats," "Thirty Fathoms Deep," "Hell on Ice," "Men Under the Sea," and many short stories and magazine articles. He is now a United States naval reserve re-serve officer. He was born in Hartford, in 1896, the son of a Russian Jewish immigrant. immi-grant. Young Ellsberg went to Annapolis, An-napolis, where he was graduated at the head of his class. His eminence in engineering is comparable to his literary reputation. reputa-tion. He attended the Yale School of Naval Architecture, after his graduation from Annapolis and in the World war got a fast running start into his career by refashioning refashion-ing interned German ships for transports. trans-ports. He is short, compact, squarely square-ly built, with an outthrust jaw, and always stirred by keen intellectual interests. NEVER an engineer, metallurgist, metallur-gist, financier or salesman, Walter S. Tower worked up in the steel industry to a $100,000-a-year job. As president of the American Iron & Steel institute, he tells the New York general meeting of that organization that this country has steel enough to supply all possible 1942 demands several times over Mr. Tower taught economic geography geog-raphy at the University of Chicago and was trade adviser for the U. S shipping board. Has a Harvard M. A. and a degree from Pennsylvania. |
