WASHINGTON -- Air travel is not what it once was, but one wonderful thing about it hasn't changed: It's still the only way to get through the huge pile of magazines that you've been stacking up ...

There are no ads for fedoras in my pile of magazines. I wonder who invented the fedora. The name sounds silly. I remember wearing a Timm's cap, which looked silly but at least it kept your ears warm.

I might go anywhere, even Kentucky, to escape. The silence is broken when Becky asks me why there are two piles of magazines. I explain that one pile is being saved. The other is being pitched.

These History of Aviation magazines speak of a time when the world looked at aviation from the perspective of preparation for war and a way of offering new opportunities to travel. They date from ...