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Whatever the great U.S. ace race might be doing to fighter pilots' teamwork against the enemy, it was making news and new heroes. Out in front last week was a blond, crinkle-eyed, corn-fed youngster from Poplar, Wis. Over Hollandia, New Guinea, the Army Air Forces' stocky, 23-year-old Captain Richard Ira Bong had smashed Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's 26-year-old record* by knocking down his 26th and 27th Jap aircraft...
Thus the great Negro fighter Henry Armstrong saluted the ability of Keith Nuttall, a boxer of Brigham City, Utah, who is just 13 years old. Last week, as usual, blond, handsomely babyfaced, mild-mannered young Keith was appearing in exhibition bouts in his home neighborhood. He was fast, brilliant in his footwork, a cunning boxer, and punched so hard that he had to have his hands taped. He has been fighting for two years now-two or three bouts nearly every week...
...past nine years the man who has really made Pepsodent click as a company has been a young character right out of Horatio Alger: a small, blond, Leslie-Howardish man named Charles Luckman. "Chuck" Luckman, now 34, began working as a Kansas City newsboy when he was nine, worked his way through high school and the University of Illinois toward his boyhood dream of becoming an architect. When he graduated in 1931, he had not only an architect's license but also a marriage license. To pay for the consequences of the latter, he took a draftsman...
...Erie, Pa., who won five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third baseman for the Washington Senators...
Martha Stevenson Kemp Mature, blond ex-wife of Swingster Hal Kemp and Victor ("Beautiful Hunk") Mature, arrived in Manhattan from Palm Beach with a bump on her head. According to the New York Journal-American's society page, she had been jarred awake in her sleeping car, sat upright, "rapped her lovely sconce" on the upper berth...