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HIGHER & HIGHER: What a difference 82...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Steve Emmons

HIGHER & HIGHER: What a difference 82 years make. . . . Martin Marietta Corp.’s acquisition of General Electric’s aerospace division will create the world’s largest defense electronics firm. But in 1910 the Martin company was just getting off the ground in a pasture in Santa Ana. . . . That’s where aviation pioneer Glenn Martin made his first powered flight in a plane he built in a church basement. Martin’s company prospered, then moved to L.A., Cleveland and Baltimore to be closer to buyers.

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

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