Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.AVIATION: New Pilot for T.W.A.
One day last week a tall, powerfully built man stepped out of the board room at T.W.A. headquarters in Kansas City, Mo., peeled off his coat, shouted to a friend, "I feel pretty good now, Swede, let's wrestle." LaMotte Turck Cohu, 51, felt pretty good because he had just been elected president of T.W.A. to replace Jack Frye.
In "Mot" Cohu (rhymes with show-you), T.W.A. had an experienced pilot at the stick. A World War I Navy flyer, Cohu first peddled aviation securities before he moved into the operating end of the industry. In 1930 he...
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