Foreign News: Three Men & a Girl

The four friends—three young men and a dark-haired girl of 20—were passionately interested in aviation. They joined an amateur flying club in Poznan, western Poland, and began to ride the sky in whatever old craft they could lay their hands on. One of the men was a skilled pilot to begin with, and the others soon caught up. All four worked like Russian Stakhanovites on a plane of their own, scrounging parts and trying to make them stick together.

When the four friends surveyed their finished craft, they saw a crate whose fuselage had...

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