RICKENBACKER by Edward Vernon Rickenbacker. 458 pages. Prentice-Hall.
$7.95.
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was a daredevil racing driver and America's World War I ace of aces, later applied his bravura to business when he took over Eastern Air Lines. He survived a dizzying number of auto and plane crashes, one of which led to his spectacular 24-day nightmare in a rubber raft in the Pacific in 1942. Unfortunately, Pilot Rickenbacker's prose does not fly; it won't even roll. The irascible old individualist makes his life sound dully plausible and pat.
Moreover, he fails to relate incidents that would help to explain why in his day...
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