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...years between, blond, six-foot-three Squadron Leader Chesley Gordon Peterson, D.F.C., had skipped through the Payson, Utah High School and Brigham Young University. He had learned a lot about mathematics, agriculture and dancing. After college he worked in the Douglas Aircraft factory. But with the flying bug still in him, he joined the U.S. Air Corps as a cadet. He was finally kicked out, ostensibly because he was a "bloody awful flyer," actually because he had lied about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: IN THE AIR: Eagle from Alfalfa Patch | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...Jobs 2 & 3, if successfully finished, would make these "vast quantities" look like peanuts. They were both under the supervision of Van Benschoten's boss, Ernest Tupper, OPM's tall, blond Coordinator of Industry & Commodity Research. Ernie Tupper is surveying 1) industry's inventories, and 2) those of the Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. By last week, his industry surveys (86,000 firms were questioned) were almost all in, but untabulated. They had already turned up some interesting preliminary unbalances: pulp and paper mills with ten months' supply of lead; 59 printing-machinery plants with nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALLOCATION: Formula for Rationing | 11/17/1941 | See Source »

...beginning of the season, football experts predicted that Notre Dame's Frank Leahy, drafted from Boston College to coach at his alma mater, would turn out to be the outstanding coach of the year. Leahy has done a creditable job: with a surprise find in blond Angelo Bortolo Bertelli, a sophomore sharpshooter who has completed 39 passes in 64 tries for a gain of 579 yards, his Notre Dame team has defeated Arizona, Indiana, Georgia Tech, Carnegie Tech and Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Undefeated | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

Inviting one, two or three Harvard men to a dance is nothing compared to the mass dating done by Marilyn Whisman, pretty blond Radcliffe Freshman, who in the last two days has asked a sum total of 300 upperclassmen to the Eliot House Fall Dance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 350 Upperclassmen Asked to Eliot House Dance By Radcliffe Freshman | 11/6/1941 | See Source »

Target's cast is unlisted, but some are recognizable, others known: Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; "Speedy" Powell, the blond, curly-topped Wing Commander (O.B.E., D.S.O.), who led the first over-the-Alps raid on Venice; the rugged Group-Captain (D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar), a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The crew of F for Freddie, which devoted three months to making the film, have made more than 200 flights over Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 3, 1941 | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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