In Paris last week the Ligue Internationale des Aviateurs named as recipient of the Harmon Trophy that super-careful, monosyllabic antithesis of a grandstand flyer. Captain Edwin C. Musick, 42, No. 1 pilot of Pan American Airways. The award includes the title of ''World's Outstanding Aviator" for 1935. Famed among flyers as perhaps the ablest flying-boat pilot on earth, but practically unknown to the U. S. public until Pan American began its methodical march across the Pacific (TIME, Dec. 2), Captain Musick has never been known to stunt a commercial plane, has had no...
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