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Army pursuit pilots never spoke of "Buzz" Wagner except in superlatives. He was to them the best, the bravest, the hottest pilot-and the swellest guy-in the Air Forces. They said he could buzz the camouflage off the top of a hangar without touching it. Once, in the Philippines, he shot down a Jap Zero while he was flying upside down. He knew how to get between the Japs and the sun, then pop them off while they were blinded...
...some years now elephantine Pan American Airways has been trying to slap down a persistent gadfly, New Zealand-born, onetime barnstormer, Lowell Yerex. But all that the slapping has accomplished so far is to make Yerex, founder and president of TACA (Transportes Aereos Centre Americanos), fly more and buzz louder (TIME, Sept. 28). Last week the buzzes crescendoed before a hearing of the Civil Aeronautics Board when Yerex appeared to ask for a license to fly scheduled routes in what Pan Am considers its exclusive territory-the Caribbean...
...team is at full strength for the Mass State battle. Only wing Buzz Sawhill will be unable to make the trip, and his inside forward slot has been filled by Jim Apthorp or Jack Dixson for the past weeks...
...authors describe a curious domestic scene in the White House on Dec. 7. The President was sitting tieless and in shirt sleeves, munching an apple and chatting with "Buzz" (his nickname for Harry Hopkins). Buzz, in V-necked sweater and slacks, was lounging on a couch. Suddenly the phone jangled and a White House operator apologized, for disturbing Mr. Roosevelt, but Secretary Knox was on the wire, insisting. When the President was told by his Secretary of the Navy that bombs were raining down upon Pearl Harbor, his instant reflex action was a cry of "No!" Later in a sudden...
...side of the Boat Club. Many a wounded scull has been repaired there, but the story is told of one eight, whose remains can still be seen in the Boat Club, which ran up the ramp into the shop in a fog and got sawed in half on the buzz...