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...Navy was off first. At Perth, West Australia, a twin-engined Lockheed Neptune patrol bomber, stripped of all but the most rudimentary radio, set out for the U.S. or beyond. Secretly the crew of the Truculent Turtle hoped to get to Bermuda, half way round the world...
...doesn't pay to hit Joe Louis so hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand...
...planes being built for the Navy have regular airline seats and a few added frills would make a plane for the airline trade. This put Lockheed a few lengths ahead of Convair, which had built only the bomber version of its six-engine XB-36 for the Army Air Forces. Boeing, with 49 commercial orders for its Stratocruiser, was still in the lead...
With the pleased air of one letting out a big secret, Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week let out one of the biggest in the aircraft business. Out of a hangar at Fort Worth, Tex., Consolidated rolled its new, unconventional, six-motored giant, the XB-36 bomber-world's largest land plane. The development cost: approxi-' mately...
Died. Captain Norman Mickey ("Bus") Miller, 38, the Navy's legendary one-man aerial task force, most decorated Navy flyer of World War II; of tuberculosis; in Corona, Calif. A hard-bitten combat pilot, he took his battle-scarred Liberator bomber, Thunder Mug, into Truk time & again at mast top level, sank or damaged more than 60 Jap vessels...