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Hopping purposefully in and out of the open cockpits is Anti-hero George Peppard, cast as Stachel, an upstart fly-boy whose killer instincts devastate both friend and foe before he can claim "the Blue Max," pilot slang for Germany's equivalent of the Medal of Honor.* In the novel by Jack D. Hunter, Stachel was a murderous, alcoholic blackmailer, but a trio of adapters has softened the edges of Peppard's role, following the unwritten Hollywood law that a hero-heel must be boyish, winning, and a terror abed. As a nod to custom, death...
...Government when Claude Lightfoot was convicted in Chicago last month, and released in $5,000 bail. The five were: Eugene Dennis, 50, former general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; John Gates, 42, former Daily Worker editor; John B. Williamson. 52, former party labor secretary; Jacob A. Stachel, 55, former educational director; Carl Winter, 48, former Michigan state chairman...
...when Lattimore, as OWI chief in the Pacific, accompanied Henry Wallace to China, Jack Stachel, a top Communist functionary, "advised me to consider Owen Lattimore as a Communist. To me, that meant to treat as authoritative anything that he said...
...instructions were issued on onionskin documents "so secret that we were instructed not to burn them, but to tear them in small pieces and destroy them through the toilet." In these documents, "L or XL in Far Eastern affairs referred to Mr. Lattimore. I was so advised by Jack Stachel...
...reason I didn't see him again . . ." Johnson began. MacInnis objected, but Judge George B. Harris let Johnson continue. "The reason I didn't see him again was because at the national committee meeting at which Harry Bridges was introduced . . Jack Stachel [one of the eleven convicted U.S. Communist leaders] said to the meeting that in the future Harry Bridges would not be brought to committee meetings for security reasons . . ." i.e., so that he could continue his West Coast labor work unhampered by the Communist label...