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Eventually the British may get small aircraft carriers to escort their convoys. Meanwhile they sacrifice planes and pilots. Having reduced sinkings by U-boats, they still have to beat the bomber menace to their convoys...
...beat Joe Louis as any challenger now afoot, but even if Joe Louis wins-and the chances, as always, are better that he will than that he won't-it may be Joe's last fight. Recently reclassified 1-A by a Chicago draft board, the Brown Bomber will probably join the Army next month...
...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
Died. Sergeant James Matthew Maxon Jr., 33, son of the Episcopal Bishop of Tennessee; in a plane crash during a test flight; "somewhere in England." A bomber and rear-gunner in the R.C.A.F., he had made several flights over Germany...
...Meaning: experimental (X) patrol bomber (PB), second of manufacturer's related design (2), Martin (M), first specimen in its own series...