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Visitors to Stallings Field in Kinston, N.C. recently have found a strange building standing smack in front of the PX: a neat white outhouse with two large signs bearing the words "Rumor Factory." The outhouse and signs are the work of Truman Miller, 43, president of Kinston's Serv-Air Aviation Corp. and a man who knows his flyers. "Any airfield, from the repair shops to the soda fountain, is a rumor factory," says Miller. "They fly in and out and leave the damndest stories you ever heard...
...rumors started to bother Miller after the Pentagon announced the Air Force budget cuts last May. Since his Serv-Air Corp. is a civilian company which gives aviation cadets primary flight training, every one of the 720 employees wondered what would happen to their jobs. The rumors buzzed like hornets: the school was closing, staff cuts coming, pay slashes ahead. In desperation two months ago, Miller put up his outhouse, labeled it Rumor Factory, and asked everybody to look at two bulletin boards inside. One board was labeled "rumors"-anyone could jot down his favorite; the other was labeled "fact...
...Word. In Telephone, Texas, the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. announced that it would soon get around to installing the town's first telephone serv-ce. In Great Falls, Mont., Mrs. Frank H. Human won a divorce after testifying that her husband treated her in an "inhuman manner...
With the first World War, routine instruction duties gave way to other serv- ice, and an appointment as Ensign (PC) (T) was accepted in October, 1918. The following July 1 is listed for date of commission as Lt. (jg) in the Supply Corps. After two years more Lt. McKee was given an honorable discharge, but he soon re-enlisted and was rated CSK (PA) early...
...service technique will suffer by comparison with more carefully authenticated spy stories, notably MGM's Rendezvous, it contains two memorable scenes: 1) a brilliant reproduction of the firing of one of the famed Ger man long-range siege guns trained on Paris, followed by its destruction by secret serv ice sabotage; 2) the examination in a bag gage car of a coffin in which the fleeing Alan is supposed to have hidden...