American folk music revival the UK, protesting the British testing of the H-bomb in 1958, as well as by the ever-proliferating arms race and the increasingly unpopular Vietnam War. Young singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, playing acoustic guitar and harmonica, had been signed and recorded for Columbia by producer John Hammond in 1961. Dylan's record enjoyed some popularity among Greenwich Village folk-music enthusiasts, but he was "discovered" by an immensely larger audience when a pop-folk-music group, Peter, Paul & Mary had a hit with a cover of his song "Blowin' in the Wind". Peter, Paul & Mary also brought Pete Seeger and the Weavers' "If I
Women in the Wind who saw her emerge from the blazing wreck with hardly a smudge on her cheek. Fortunately, the final release has a more conventional crash scene with Ms. Arden's character badly injured and carried off on a stretcher. A number of scenes utilized footage from record-breaking round-the-world and transatlantic flights. Aircraft for the film were provided by Hollywood film pilot Howard Blatt. Critically reviewed in "The New York Times" by Frank S. Nugent, "Women in the Wind" was considered lackluster and ground-hugging, despite the action being set in an air race. "It is another commonplace little fiction embroidered upon the Powder