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...newspaper bug bit Alvin Wiehle during a long illness in 1940. At first he made just one weekly copy of his four-page tabloid, printing it by hand in pencil. This year he began to dream of expanding, printed a suggestive notice on Page Two: "Washington, Sept. 14-For his birthday and Christmas, Alvin wants a mimeograph duplicator. . . ." Later Alvin roared gleefully to press with a Monday "extra" proclaiming: A. w. HAS DUPLICATOR-His three older sisters (he has four sisters and two brothers...
Johnson waded in. He squashed the bug in production, set up new training schools, speeded development work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...
James' activities were revealed by Joseph P. Lyford '41 who exposed them in a series of articles for the CRIMSON, and whose work was so successful that James called him later a "human bug...
...that anyone would admit was that the planes had landed in Turkey. Three of the bug-bellied, four-engined B-24s settled snugly on Ankara's airdrome, disgorging 21 jubilant men & officers in U.S. Army Air Force uniforms. One crashed near Ismit, between Ankara and Rumania's Nazified oil fields, with a Messerschmitt on its tail and the marks of Turkish anti-aircraft fire on its seamed skin. The official report was that they...
...after six months in Axis hands. In the New York Times last week he serialized his story (somewhat toned down to suit the conservatism of the Times). Captured with a British tank brigade which was nearly destroyed in Libya, he was photographed by Field Marshal Rommel, a candid camera bug who sometimes popped out of a tank turret to lecture his captives on their tactical errors. Contriving to get himself turned over to Italy rather than Germany, he was treated "almost with perfect courtesy." But when the Germans forced his surrender to them, he was taken to Berlin...