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From: jimtracker19/28/2008 2:08:16 PM
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Before I retired, I used to fly out of Los Angeles about 3 weeks out of 4. I belonged to Delta's private lounge so I used to see a lot of celebrities/movie stars. Over the years I sat next to Paul Newman twice. Once on the red eye from LA to Newark and 10 years later on a flight from Monterrey to LA.
On the Monterrey flight I said to him that we had flown together before. He said it was on the red eye back east so he remembered. When the flight ended he said to me "I'll see you in 10 years". He was just an ordinary, nice guy. Very easy to talk to. We talked about our lives in the ten years
between flights. We both liked cars so that was most of the conversation.

In 1954 I was stationed at Ft Ord, Ca and was going home to get married. I was flying from Monterrey to San Francisco connecting on to SLC. I was the only one boarding the flight at Monterrey and just as I started to climb the stairs too board, I was asked to wait at the bottom of the stairs as there was one more passenger to deplane. I looked up and the passenger to deplane was Charlton Heston. Our eyes locked and he just starred at me the whole time he came down the stairs.
When he got to the bottom of the stairs he gave me a little nod and was gone. At the top of the stairs he looked 9 ft tall. I'll never forget that piercing look. I will never forget the connecting flight to SLC as we had a problem with the outboard right engine (propeller driven) and every few minutes the engine missed and then the plane shuddered and pulled to the right then would turn back to the left and then followed by another engine miss and shudder to the right followed by another turn to the left. Nobody slept
on that flight. Just white knuckles.
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