THE YOUNG REPORTER waitet, pencil sharpend and notebock ready...
...Finally , a secretary said"Mr.Sikorsky will see you now."...
He sat down, statet his business-the Story of Mr. Sikorsky's life-and promptly forget the most of his carefully prepared questions.
Sensing the situation, the aeronautical pinoneer took over. He began to tell his story, slowly, precisley, his English spiced with a Russian accent. The reporter wrote down almost every word...
...As the reader may have guessed, the young reporter was this author...
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When Captian Charles Nungesser, the French ace of World War I, came to Roosevelt Field to give flight demonstrations, reporters covering the week's events helped pay for Sikorsky workers' food-althought they never knew it. Luckily, a telefone in the Sikorsky hangar had been paid for two month in advance. Luckily, also, it was the only phone in the area and the newsman had to use it often. Each time they paid in cash. Igor and his men collected the change at noon and evening to buy bread and milk at a nearby store...