NO FEELING OF FALLING
By Robert Lewis Taylor
The New Yorker, January 24, 1959 P. 42
PROFILE of Jacques Andre Istel, a 29-year-old French-American & this country's leading parachutist. He has been the U.S. team captain, trainer, & organizer at the international meets we have lately been entering, & together with Lewis B. Sanborn, a former carpenter he has led in our scoring A number of years ago, he took over the National Parachute Jumpers-Riggers, a kind of amateur sports group, & converted it into the Parachute Club of America, a non-profit organization that now has a membership of 859. In addition he has urged into being 40 sports parachute coubs at Ivy League colleges & at West Point. Istel is the proprietor of Parachutes, Inc., which is in the business of designing innovations & refining safety features. The manufacturing of chutes is delegated to the Pioneer Parachute Co., of Manchester, Conn., which is under the direction of a former parachutist named Lyman Ford, and has been making chutes since 1938. Istel & Sanborn have landed a fat contract for making chutes for the U. S. Marine Corps.
Published in the print edition of the January 24, 1959, issue.
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