Pan American clipper, Vol. 7, No. 6, June 1949

              Volume 7
June, 1949
Number 6
Harrach Was Trained “President” Service to Feature
William Harrach
In Foreign Service
William E. Harrach, former Hungarian vice consul in Paris and a member of the PAA traffic staff at LaGuar-Setfa «#*,», dia Field since last March, has been ap-pointed assistant traffic supervisor in Dakar, French West Africa. He is able to converse fluently in English, French, German, Italian, Russian and his native Hungarian.
Mr. Harrach was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1915. By the time he entered Hungarian diplomatic service in 1939 he had received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Budapest, and had conducted graduate studies at the School of Economic and Commercial Sciences in Rome, the School of Political Sciences in Paris and the University of Munich. Later he continued his studies at the School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, and the School of Advanced International Studies in Washington,
D. C.
For his first three years in diplomatic service, Mr. Harrach worked in different sections of the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and was sent on government missions to Sweden, Finland and Turkey. He was named vice consul for Hungary in Paris in February, 1943, and during the German occupation of France he helped save his compatriots from enforced labor or deportation to Germany.
The next June, Mr. Harrach left the Hungarian foreign service and went to work for the Hungarian Purchasing Commission of war surplus properties in France.

Champagne, Flowers,Blue Carpet
Week-End Weather
As a service to week-ending PAA-ers planning trips to the shore, the mountains, the races or the ball games, the meteorology office at La-Guardia Field is now issuing special three-day weather forecasts each Friday afternoon. The advisories are broadcast by means of the telautograph.
LGA Line Crew Wins On-Time Commendation
LaGuardia Field’s line crew rates special praise from Station Manager Ray de Haan for a remarkable on-time record in 1949. In the first four months of the year, the line crew was charged with only three delays. In this period, 609 No. 1 services were pulled by the line crew, which also handled all departures, arrivals, training flights, Avianca services, and other itinerant aircraft.
The line crew took over the servicing of Atlantic Division DC-4 equipment in April. With this increase in work load, the line crew still was responsible for only two delays in April, for a total time of seven and one-half hours. The only other delay this year occurred in January and amounted to 35 minutes.
Mr. de Haan also points out that in the month of April the percentage of on-time departures at LGA was 89 per cent, compared with 86 per cent in April, 1948. The number of scheduled departures increased 26.4 per cent in that period.
ENGINE
CHANGE
A trio of LGA line crew mechanics get ready for an engine change on a DC-4 Clipper. Left to right, they’re WARREN HORR, AL ABRAMS and ART SCHULTE. The line crew performed 207 No. 1 services during April, and a total of 609 in the first four months of 1949.
“The President,” a special luxury Clipper service between New York and London once weekly starting June 10, has been announced by Willis G. Lipscomb, Pan American’s vice president in charge of traffic and sales.
“We intend this to be the most deluxe service ever offered the air traveler,” Mr. Lipscomb said in announcing the all-sleeper, extra fare flight.
The luxury service will be offered with a brand new version of the Stratocruiser Clipper for $10 more than the regular fare of $350 one way. It will include, in addition to sleeping accommodations for all passengers, a lower deck lounge, breakfast in bed, seven-course dinners cooked by a flight chef, a choice of menus, complimentary cocktails, vintage champagne and cordials, corsages for the ladies, and a special Clipper blue carpet in New York and London for passengers boarding and leaving the plane.
Berths and Sleeperettes
Taking advantage of the versatile, doubledeck design of the Stratocruiser, Pan American has designed an interior providing all-sleeper accommodations in either berths or sleeperette-type seats. There will be 39 sleeperettes on the upper deck, which normally accommodates 53 seats. There is no charge for sleeperettes. Seventeen berths will be available at an additional cost of $25 each.
Staterooms may also be purchased on “The President” at $25 per berth.
“This new flight is offered for one purpose — to serve experienced and discriminating travelers who want the utmost in luxury as well as speed and comfort and want it under the American flag,” said Mr. Lipscomb.
The flights will leave New York every Friday at 4 p.m. and will leave London for New York Sunday evenings at 7 p.m.
Including the flight chef there will be five cabin attendants — four men and one stewardess. The men will wear white, double breasted formal dinner jackets as part of their uniform. They will serve meals when the passenger wants to eat and serve them by course instead of on a single tray. Meals may be served in the main cabin or in the downstairs lounge.
The extra space between seats, characteristic of sleeperette service, permits the use of dining tables which, in the case of “The President” flight, will have linen table cloths, silverware, and china.
Menus will be printed in French and will provide two choices for each of the seven courses. During the meal, which will take approximately 400 miles to serve, cocktails, champagne and cordials will be served. Pan American’s regular liquor service will be available between meals.
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