Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 1, January 1954

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Pan	American M'orlo
ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Volume 13
January, 1954
No. 1
Travel Help From Pan Am Judged Best
The “grand award” for the “Best Travel Promotion in the World” for 1953 was given to Pan American by the Midwest Travel Writers Association last month, at a special dinner meeting held in the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago.
Frank Cipriani, president of the association and travel editor of the Chicago Tribune, gave the award to John A. Creedy, System public relations manager.
He commended the System travel information series for its factual content and for best filling the need of travel editors throughout the midwest. He also spoke highly of the picture and news service of the Latin American Division, with specific mention of S. Roger Wolin, public relations manager for LAD.
He specially commended Brad Dressier, Pan American public relations representative in Chicago, (Continued on Page 2)
PAA Sponsors Meet The Press On TV Network
A significant milestone in the history of Pan American advertising was reached on January 3 when the company began sponsorship of the television program, Meet The Press, over the NBC TV network.
On a co-sponsorship basis, Meet The Press will be Pan American’s program every other week (from January 3) until June 20. It will be picked up again on August 29 and will carry through December 19.
On alternate weeks the program will be sponsored by Revere Copper and Brass. During eight weeks of the summer the program will be carried on a sustaining or nonsponsorship basis by the network.
Meet The Press has been known for a long time as a major forum for the discussion of the leading topics of the day. Its guests include world figures in all walks of life. The views expressed on the program often are front-page news the following day.
Ned Brooks of the NBC Washington news staff serves as moderator of the program. Lawrence Spivak continues to be the principal figure among the interviewers, which include the Washington correspondents of the country’s leading newspapers and magazines.
While this is Pan American’s first use of network television, it is by no means its first acquaintanceship with the medium. PAA was the first airline to use television as an advertising medium when it sponsored a series of travel films over WNBT, New York, for a period of 39 weeks in 1945.
Beauty And The Beast
You just can’t account for-the actions of some people! All that beauty standing around and the two men concentrate their attention
on a flog. Wellll? Comprising the beauty section^he picture i»^, in the	marfcet to Pan
some Berman stewardesses: Cerda Zabrowsky, «ffiemOTle-Hcmieetr^ i Erika Missler, Inge Maschmann, Tatjana Karwolski, Chris Huskova,
Lilo Degelman, Margot Vogelbacher and Gisela Wolff. The gathering was to welcome Barry Eldridge (kneeling, right), new traffic and sales manager for the intra-German services, and to say farewell to Harald Genssler, newly-appointed assistant superintendent of reservations (Division) in LIC. (Photo by Riedl)
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CONVENTION
The Division’s annual sales meeting opened in Berlin on January 11, with 90 DTSMs and other company officials attending. Represented at the conference were 60 cities in 36 countries, colonies or dominions.
Payoff
Two Men Get Second For Suggestion
A second payoff for a suggestion has been made to two master mechanics in the metal shop at Idlewild.
About two years ago, Don Martin and Ed Beksvoort worked out an improved locking device for B-377 seat trays, making them adaptable for any seating configuration.
They submitted the idea to the Employees’ Suggestion System of the Atlantic Division and they were rewarded for their ingenuity.
Just recently, however, the suggestion was adopted in the Pacific Alaska Division. So the two Idle-wild men have received their second payoff — $82.50 each from PAD.
In the Atlantic Division the modification has worked out very satisfactorily from a flight service standpoint, it was said. It has saved considerable time in setting up an airplane prior to dinner service and has eliminated much tray breakage.
Air Mail Test Proves Flights Can Beat Time
An air mail test to demonstrate the fact that flight in the Pacific jet stream is faster than time was conducted recently by Pan American.
In the test, letters mailed in Japan on January 1, 1954, arrived in Hawaii on December 31, 1953. And they were back-stamped in Honolulu to prove it.
The jet stream is a tremendous “river” of very high speed winds which blow from west to east, high above the Pacific. Each winter PAD Strato-Clippers take advantage of these “built-in tail winds” on scheduled flights from Japan to the United States, making nonstop hops of nearly 4,000 miles from Tokyo to Honolulu.
Enroute, the planes cross the International Date Line and ac tually land in Honolulu — date-wise — before they take off from Tokyo.
Detroit And Chicago Services Being Added By Pan American
A direct service to Europe, from Chicago and Detroit, will be inaugurated by Pan American on April 30, it was recently announced by Vice President Willis G. Lipscomb.
The once-weekly service will originate- in Chicago on Fridays. Flights will stop in Detroit and proceed to London by way of Gander and Shannon. Super-Six Clippers will be
^used in the service.
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Cargo Lift Upped 50%
During 1954
Pan American will add 50 per cent to its cargo lift in 1954, according to Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president, traffic and sales.
The added lift will provide space for sales of 100 million pounds of cargo on PAA routes throughout the world.
On the transatlantic route, two new developments will give domin-
same route, stopping in Detroit and terminating in Chicago.
In June, a second direct service from Chicago and Detroit will be inaugurated, this one to Scandinavia. These flights will originate in Chicago on Tuesdays, making stops in Detroit, Prestwick, Hamburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm.
Also in June, a second weekly flight to London will be inaugurated. These flights will be operated from Chicago and Detroit on Sundays.
At present it is planned to operate only tourist-class service to and from the two United States cities.
Tre Super-Six Clippers will have (Continued on Page 12)
American which now carries more than 40 per cent of the business, Mr. Lipscomb said.
Atlantic Developments
First, a 30 per cent reduction in rates for general commodity shipments of more than 400 pounds will open new markets for air cargo shipments, both at home and abroad.
And delivery of three all-cargo DC-6As to Pan American will mean at least two weekly flights with pressurized all-cargo equipment across the Atlantic.
In addition, all of PAA’s 32 weekly passenger flights will have space for cargo.
The new DC-6A Clippers will lift 26,000 pounds on a flight to Europe, compared with 14,000 pounds now carried on DC-4 cargo flights.
LAD Expansion
In Latin America, rate reduc-(Continued on Page 2)
Al Cilli Replaces White As V.P. Of Pan Am Club
Al Cilli, chief of the route section at Idlewild and very active in Pan Am Club affairs, has been named to succeed John White as vice president of the club.
Mr. Cilli was elected by the board of directors of the Pan Am Club, following the resignation of Mr. White from the post.
Hudak Is Appointed Cargo Sales Manager
Edward Hudak, formerly LAD’s cargo traffic superintendent, has been appointed cargo sales manager, U. S.
Mr. Hudak joined Pan American in 1929 and worked in the accounting and purchasing departments in New York and Brownsville until 1936. At that time he was assigned to the cargo department at Brownsville and became cargo supervisor in 1942. He was made assistant Division cargor superintendent in 1946.
From 1947 to 1950, Mr. Hudak handled special assignments in the U. S. and System cargo sales organizations. And in 1951 he was named cargo traffic superintendent for LAD.
Mr. Hudak was born in Brooklyn, New York, and is now a resident of Levittown, Long Island. He is married and has two children.
HIGH RATING
The Idlewild switchboard (OLympia 6-5500) received last month the highest rating (99.4%) ever awarded by the New York Telephone Company to a private telephone switchboard.
The rating was based on a performance study made by the telephone company without the switchboard operators’ knowledge. The study measured promptness of answering, efficiency and courtesy.
Personnel involved in this achievement were: Chief Operator Ann Digney and Florence V. Bunting, Margaret T. Conlon, Veronica A. Fallon, Mary Kavanagh, Anne T. Lahey, Helen C. Mullins, Claire E. Reeves and Harriet E. Tompkins.
In This Issue
Accra ....................11
Amsterdam ................ 9
Bonn...................... 9
Boston ...................10
Brussels.................. 9
Calcutta .................11
Copenhagen ...............10
Duesseldorf .............. 9
Emblem Awards ............10
Flight Personnel ......... 8
Frankfurt ................ 9
Gander ...................10
Johannesburg .............11
Karachi ..................11
Lisbon ...................11
London ...................6,	7
New York .................4,	5
Paris .................... 6
People Talking ........... 2
Prestwick ................ 6
Rome ....................7,10
Shannon ..................6,	7
Stuttgart ................ 9
Vienna ................... 9
Washington ...............10
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At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 44,040 Transatlantic crossings