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Caption: Evelyn Thompson waits at airport here today for arrival of Bill Odom on his non-stop world?s record flight from Honolulu. The Manhasset, N.Y., girl had radioed ?Not worried. Sweating it out. Know you?ll make it.? Odom referred to her as ?my Evelyn? after greeting her and said he intended to marry her some time in the future.
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