Equally fascinating is Al Schwimmer, a TWA employee who bought a surplus C-46 for $5,000. He eventually smuggled that and about 30 other aircraft to Israel when the nation was under an embargo ...

Future President of Israel Ezer Weizman was among the pilots ... But in the U.S., an ingenious former TWA flight engineer named Al Schwimmer was quietly rounding up a gaggle of war surplus ...

This, Burns's first published work and the earliest of the ecclesiastical satires, was called 'The Holy Tulzie' or 'An Unco Mournfu' Tale', 'The Twa Herds' was based on the fact that the Reverend ...