Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 4, April 1953

              Pan American World Airways
ATLANTIC DIVISION
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Volume 12
April, 1953
Number 4
Winners In "Flying Salesman" Contest
Prize money in the “Flying Salesman’ .contest was awarded recently, with the top prize of $300 going to John Updike, left above. Paul Verbin and Joan Murchison, also pictured, received $200 and $100 respectively as second and third prizes. The awards were made by Paul T. Rennell, right, Division
sales manager.
$1,700 In Prizes Awarded Flight Service Personnel
Twenty-five cash prizes, totalling $1,700, have been awarded to the flight service personnel who participated in the Flying Salesman Contest, with the top prize, $300, going to John Updike. Paul Verbin and Joan Murchison, who placed second and third in the contest, were awarded $200 and $100 respectively, for their participation.
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an award of $50 went to each of
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Paris Trip Is Awarded At Jamboree
An effort was made this year to break tradition,, by making the male sex eligible to win a free trip to Paris, but tradition refused to be broken on Friday, March 27. As in previous years, a girl has won the free trip. The winner— Ailene Hopkins at LIC.
The selection of the winner of the fifee trip was made during the “Spring Jamboree” which was sponsored by the Pan Am Club. The event was held in place of the annual “Snow Ball,” also sponsored by the Pan Am Club, but in which only female employees were eligible to win the free trip to Paris.
A change in the rules and in the general set-up of the spring social affair this year made male employees of the Division also eligible. The free trip is for one week, with all expenses paid.
The “Spring Jamboree” was held at the Lost Battalion Hall in Elmhurst, L. I. Dancing was from 9 p.m. till 2 a.m., with Bob Richardson and his orchestra furnishing the music.
In charge of the arrangements for the affair was Ed Corrigan, chairman of the Pan Am Club’s social activities. Among those who assisted with the event were: Seymour Berman, George Harris, Flo McDonald, Ann Clapps, Dottie Burke, Carol Santos, Sidney Bergstrom and Dee Carraro.
System Meeting Held To Discuss Standardization
The seventh annual meeting of engineering chiefs of PAA’s radio division was held during February in SFO, with the System’s coordination chief, B. F. McLeod, in. charge. Representatives from all three of PAA’s divisions were in attendance.
Purpose of the meeting was to discuss current problems and foster further standardization of aircraft radio installations and procedures, and to devise uniform planning for new equipment.
One of the standardized installations made already, for instance, is the tester for condensers used in (Continued on Page 2)
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Be not afraid: go tell My brethren that they go into Galilee, and there they shall see Me, — St. Matthew XXVIII, 10.
Borger Named To Serve With Advisory Group
Appointments to the 28 technical committees and subcommittees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics have been announced for 1953. From Pan American, John G. Borger has been reappointed to the committee on operating problems, and was newly appointed to the committee on power plants for aircraft.
Each year some 400 men are appointed to the NACA’s technical committees and subcommittees. They serve their country in a personal and professional capacity, without compensation, and are chosen on the basis of their rec-(Continued on Page 2)
Sixth E.H.C.
Hotel To
During April
When the $8,750,000, 16-story, 400-room Hotel Tequendama officially opens its doors in Bogota in April, Colombians will celebrate the completion of an enterprise in which outstanding designers, engineers and operators of two continents have worked side by side in perfect harmony to build a great, modern hotel for South America.
The Tequendama will be the sixth Latin American unit in the rapidly expanding family of the Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Pan American.
The Tequendama is situated in San Diego Plaza, nine blocks from the center of Bogota, facing one of the city’s finest parks, with a mountain range in the rear providing a majestic background. In October, 1950, an old army barracks and a small park occupied the site where the hotel now stands.
Public rooms of the Tequendama will include an American bar, an informal Teakwood Grill and Sandwich Bar, the “Chipsas Bar” which is an intimate boite, and the Monsterrat Room which will be (Continued on Page 2)
Western Germany’s Visa Requirement Eliminated
Americans traveling to Western Germany and Western Berlin will no longer require visas, it has been announced by the German Tourist Information Office. The agreement to abolish the visa was made between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the German Federal Republic and the U. Sv State Department.
Germany enjoyed a great tourist year in 1952, when the number of visitors from abroad during the first nine months of the war was 39.3 per cent higher than for the same period in 1951. Statistics from Berlin indicate that 37.5 per cent more tourists from abroad visited the city during 1952 than in the previous year. Over 200,000 Americans visited Germany in 1952.
NYK/SJU Flights At 25,000 Mark During February
Direct service between New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, was instituted on July 1, 1946. And it was in February that the 25,000th flight between the two cities was completed.
In the six years and seven months since the inaugural flight, PAA Clippers have flown more than 885,000 passengers a total of 40,300,000 miles over this 1,612-mile route.
The number of passengers carried is more than the combined populations of 14 of Puerto Rico’s principal cities, and the mileage total is equivalent to 132 trips to the moon, or 1,620 trips around the world at the equator.
Air cargo has shown gains equally impressive to the gains in pasenger traffic. During 1952, air cargo on this route totaled 16,257,-000 pounds, not including 10,286,000 pounds of air mail. In 1947, the air cargo total was 3,231,000 pounds.
the folowing flight service personnel: Mary Smith, Hope Alvarez (BEY), Nancy Shellenberg-er, Bruce Saville, Perry Rafferty (BEY), Marge McFarland, Stig Pettersson (BEY), Marge Schiller, Martin Murphy, Charles Mercer, Gwen Persson, Delores Kotala, Charles Dowd, Rosalie Tropper, Ronnie Roncaglione, Jim Gallacher, Gus Beck, John Kuntz-mann, Gilda Pastor, Bill Bullock, Chris Evans and Anthony Volpe.
The Flying Salesman Contest, for flight personnel only, was launched on October 1, last year, and continued for three months. Awards in the contest were based on sales leads which were turned in as a result of contacts with the traveling public, either aloft or on the ground.
Scoring in the contest was by points, with each sales dead being given a score equal to the amount of revenue it represented. In this way, quality of leads was given considerably more weight than quantity.
During the three-month contest, there were 243 sales leads sub-(Continued on Page 2)
In This Issue
Accra .................... 10
Antwerp ..................  9
Barcelona .................11
Beirut ................... 12
Berlin .................... 9
Brussels .................  3
Calcutta ................. 13
Copenhagen................. 8
Dakar .....................11
Dublin ................... 16
Duesseldorf ............... 8
Emblem Awards .............13
Flight Personnel ..........14
Frankfurt ................. 9
Gander .................... 3
Hamburg ................... 9
Headlinettes ..............16
Istanbul ..................12
Jo’burg ...................10
Karachi ...................13
Lisbon .................10,11
London ...................6, 7
Munich .................... 8
New York .................4, 5
People Talking ............ 2
Rome ......................10
Sports .................... 5
Shannon ...................16
Stuttgart ................. 9
System Round-up ...........16
Vienna .................... 8
Washington ................ 4
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 41,315 transatlantic crossings.