JIM MOLLISON

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 28 August 1939, Page 6

JIM MOLLISON

WANTS A JOB WILLING TO DO ANYTHING (By Air Mail-Spenal (or rrspomlpr.O LONDON, sth August. ! * job. At 34 he is tit and ready for | anything, be declared this week. “Oh, | well, practically anything within reason,” h- added. Ho. writes to a London newspaper: “I’m really serious tins time. It’s time I did something else besides fly through the a :• with the greatest of ease. I’ve made up my miml that I'm going to get myself •i job. I'm not looking for a soft job. My life’s been pretty much of a battle. T want it to go on like that, because without j conflict one might as well bo dead. I’m beginning to realise that one phase of my life has come t oa full stop. I’ve had •i lot of fun out of long distance flying. ‘•But the days have gone by when wo could take out our maps and pick out two places thousands of miles apart and then flv as fast as one could between those two places just to show what, could b; done. That’s all washed up. Where is there to fly to any more? The regular ai? lines go almost everywhere these days. There’s not much doing now in the old trail-blazing line But, it was grand | fun while it lasted ! What did I gel out of it? Oh, I got, a little fame, a little 1 money, and % lot of excitement—and

something else . I’ve made a thousand contracts. “I used to make these crazy (lights and a; the end of the journey I’d be showered with invitations. I’ve talked with kings and lunched with presidents. I’ve lived and laughed on terms of equality with the famous of Hire continents—industrialists, actors, scientists, statesmen, writers, I’ve met them all.”