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...more than three weeks Arnold and McCall talked to disk jockeys and teenagers, practiced bop talk around the office. When they first tried the routine on Brigadier General Joseph C. Moffitt, commanding officer of the Colorado Air Guard (the 140th Fighter-Bomber Wing), he didn't quite dig the parradiddle. "He thought we had flipped our beanies. He was real square." But when he heard the first tape recording, the general "was real sent. He felt them...
...them as a flyer. As commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe at the close of World War II, General Cannon had already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster of former pupils reading like a star chart. Among them: General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; General Hoyt Vandenberg, retired Chief of Staff; General Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the Strategic...
...Newcomer Susan Stephen makes an appealing foil for Ladd: she is peppery enough in the early reels, and sufficiently soft in time for the clinch. The Technicolor is generally excellent. Leo Genn, as a spit & polish British major, has an amusing scene; encountering the informal crew of a U.S. bomber, he snaps to attention, explains: "I just thought someone ought to salute somebody around here...
...week, almost 50 years to the day since the Wright Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, the Air Force's Major Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager, 30, attained the highest known speed ever to be reached by pilot and plane. His rocket-powered aircraft (released from a B-29 bomber at 30,000 ft. for the run): the experimental Bell XIA, a new relative of the XI, with which Chuck Yeager first cracked the sound barrier in level flight (TIME, April 18, 1949). His speed: more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound...
BRITAIN'S English Electric Co. Ltd., designers and manufacturers of the twin-jet Canberra bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...