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...BIRD, U.S.N. Pearl Harbor...
Some of the men were not in uniform: they were in the cap & gown of high-school graduation; they were out hunting with leather jacket and a bird dog at their feet; or they sat stiffly with hair slicked back and smile a little strained, for a portrait that was to be a Christmas present for a family or sweetheart. They were boys from the best families and boys from across the railroad tracks. Now they were dead, somewhere far away, or captured, or-worst of all-"missing." In some towns nearly everyone had lost a relative or a friend...
...made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term for a "bird that flies backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes...
Allowed to mail the better-behaved issue of May 23. Editor Asher wrote of Lasswell: "This was a peculiar bird. This fellow who had more college degrees than Heintz has pickles, had formulated what he called a chart. . . . Well, the blamed chart looked to me like a Cartoon or one of the inventions of Professor Whatasnozzle in the Sunday comics...
...follows: Choruses from "The Yeomen of the Guard Sullivan Solo: H. A. Joes '43 "Glorious Apollo" Webbe Written for the Glee Club, London, 1790 Two Bacchanales From "Belshazzar" Handel From "La Belle Helene" Offenbach Four Love Songs "Das Herz tut mir aufspringen" Hassler "Madglein im Walde" Arranged by Dvorak "Bird in Air" Brahms "From you hills" Brahms "Prayer of Thanksgiving" Netherlands Folksong