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...short of beating the U.S. record of 26 enemy planes shot down, a record held jointly by World War II's Captain Joe Foss and World War I's Captain Eddie Rickenbacker. "Pappy" Boyington stomped off the jungle-hemmed field, vowing that he and his Corsair would buzz up every day until they notched a new mark...
...part to Claire Chennault. He insisted on having waiters and houseboys who spoke English in the barracks, to minimize language friction. Striking a Chinese, carrying arms on visits to nearby towns, promiscuous firing of arms were made court-martial offenses. Pilots were forbidden to "buzz" airfields: the diving planes frightened the Chinese laborers...
...headquarters, a modest suite in a loft building on Manhattan's Madison Avenue. There was no bonfire outside, no vast crowd roaring to celebrate. The phones, which used to jangle out returns long before the Election Board received any official figures, uttered only an occasional mild buzz...
...seven books Hamilton Basso has written of the South. The region of his novelist's imagination is a sullen and moldering domain, full of crime, where malicious clubwomen exchange poisoned compliments in honeyed Southern accents and where somber husbands carry in their pockets rattlesnake rattles which they buzz as their speechless comment on the life of their times. In Courthouse Square, revolving around a lynching, ana in Sun in Capricorn, about the rise of a worse Huey Long, Author Basso drew as bitter a picture of his native section as Sinclair Lewis drew in Main Street and Babbitt...
Everette "Buzz" Buskirk, 4-43, Indiana University and Remington of that state. He played with a Chicago orchestra, and joined the Navy in November, 1941, serving a year at the Naval Air Station in Alaska before receiving his commission. He claims music as his business, and can teach any instrument; although playing the trombone for the band. He also played for a USO troupe show before joining...