St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1954-10-15
Minnesota Eyewitness
BY BRENDA UELAND

woman to pass through the sonic
barrier to beat the
Ods for women in planes
years old she wa working twelvehour shift mill
Her autobiography will be out soon: STARS AT NOON"
and interesting thing is that she won't bother
with wOmens records Cune the
pen to beat the existing records)
poess and daring To have physical prowess and daring
will do for hundred
beauty contests thousand mOna bake billion prize
winning cookies
competent
rey self satisfied for such diny things include
making and shopping and absorption described the
say She the " North Dakota who had the courage
to use vocuum cleaner"
you anything airplanes
find this my dairy, written during in 1e4s.
drove nephes Mark who nine and who six
to the airport.
get gas sggy happily
down the driveway his restless the
dashboard and seeing the gauge
Mark said you interested in the warn could
in the army, what would you be-"
"A marine fighting pilot Or in the infantry"
Horrors choose the things"
II know it," he said lightly
Well you hope until you grow
up get into it,"
The seemed to be no And sggy piped from the
rumbesat preferred This very
know
We'll boys Markyou want to be fighting pilot in
the infantry And won't have How
do you reconcile those two thngs?"
II can't quickly and sensibly astonishing the
mmediacy his Driving along Linden Hills Boulevard had
lapsed tminddnes then heard Sggy
dad Is too old to get in the Anyway he says they said TO him
Mr. LELAND can't let in the because might end too
siggy view seems to be that even if the war ends it will be
splendid thing because theen lot ammunition left to
with etc, And perhaps old tank two.
We driving along Sxh Street at Penn Avenue and Mark
said pleasantly he thick chestnut hair and gold eces his
I'll be pretty the know
of the controls already"
What they"
"Oh, the aimeter bank and turn, rate-of- climb "
What kind plane do you Mark"
"A PISS maybe a P4O"
you
speed boy, that's
est Of all has dove sac miles an bour Look sipg ponng 70
speck the sky Mustang"
you THAT" groaned cheerful shrIg say
he doesn't know he knows it. How know a COW?
meadows hangar black doorway
awnng and two monstrou planes summing themselves like dragon
a and sggy
offacty And there's Vckers-WeEngton"
What's THAT"
AN English bomber"
Well you Flying Fortress" 1 asked
"A BIZ is Fortress said Mark kindly,
We drove Fort Smelling GA hatrack Brenda, is half
half the hind wheels?) The soldier guard
ride handsome
carrying pair of pants to the cleaners We had lunch at the
milk better than home And after that
we had a couple of fudge sundaes all around
AS we left the airport the young navy cadets must have Just
yellow planes flying
in the air in clouds, pretty as butterflies
reading autobiography william Yeats
night the greatest poet
years Nobel price read one
being eternay alchemy chang
muddy gold Listen this last paragraph and how
! touching IT is:
now my youth and
childhood writing thinking almost
day disturbed that
phshed too few Of plans for am not ambitious but when
heard
spoken and Of the anxiety have and grandparents
and of the hopes that have had all life weighed the scales Of my
life something that happens