Money, glory and friendship are trying bedfellows. Money and glory are always heavily involved in transoceanic airplane flights. Few observers were greatly surprised last week to learn that the friendship of Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn, like that of many another flying team, was no more.
Pilot Pangborn revealed the break. He said that more than a year before they took off on their round-the-world flight he and Socialite Herndon made a "gentleman's agreement" to divide all proceeds equally. Shortly before the flight, he declared, Herndon insisted on...
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