100

Down through the clammy mists of Long Island Sound an oil-stained Pan American Clipper rumbled. It squatted on the water, taxied between the lights to its ramp at LaGuardia Field. By the time the engines had spat to rest, ruddy, squint-eyed Captain R. O. D. Sullivan was ready to sign the log of a historic transatlantic crossing.

After his name he put down a figure: "100." That was his recording of a mark no other airman had yet equaled: he had flown the Atlantic for the hundredth time. Before war's end other airmen might still equal the mark, but they would have to fly hard & fast to catch up with 49-year-old Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan, who last week was still doing more ocean traveling than any other man. Successor to the late, great Ed Musick as Pan Am's No. 1 pilot, he had piled up his record on the Atlantic since 1939. He has crossed the Pacific 55 times.

Said repressed Rod Sullivan when groundlings asked him how he felt about his 100th transatlantic flight: "Well, I do feel kind of hungry."

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