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Under the old Army method of pushing people around on paper, too often men and jobs were mismated. A pilot still full of fight might find himself, restless and bored, in an instructor's job. Another, "browned off" by the strain of too many combat missions, might better be...
In his red robe and white, horsehair wig, Sir Oscar Bedford Daly looked like Oliver Cromwell. The Chief Justice of His Majesty's Supreme Court for the Bahamas was taking testimony in longhand. Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown...
Maisie, an ex-showgirl, has an undulant walk that elicits wolf calls from welders' masks as she saunters about the plant. But Maisie is a model of kindliness, courage, efficiency. Iris is more of an artist's model. She shanghaies Maisie's pilot into betrothal. She is...
The vast majority of the audience, however, was bored to tears, and suggestions were heard that the title be changed from "The Oklahoma Kid" to "The Oklahoma Goat."
New Job, New Man. Although this criticism undoubtedly earned hear-hears from many bored BBC listeners, nothing drastic was likely to happen until after the war. Nevertheless, something did happen. It was not the appointment of hard-driving Robert Foot to be sole director and chief executive officer of BBC...