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...defense, May Quinn, a teacher for 27 years, insisted that some of her best friends were Italians and Jews. She also said that it had never entered her head that all the names on the board-Michael Murphy, Colin Kelly, John O'Hara-were Irish. She wouldn't be surprised, she testified, to meet a Greek named O'Hara, or a Russian named Kelly, what with "intermarriages and changing of names...
...chief promoters of this serious scolding to the race-conscious. He breaks up a gang of junior neighborhood toughs who are about to beat up a kid vaguely described as belonging to the wrong church. Sinatra then delivers a lecture: without traditional U.S. tolerance, Presbyterian Colin Kelly and his Jewish bombardier, Meyer Levin, would never have become great U.S. heroes...
During the early, tense days of World War II, when the U.S. people had little to hearten them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
...Haruna story has long since been set straight, although the legend persists. Actually, the late Colin Kelly bombed a ship from 20,000 feet, was killed when his plane was attacked and set afire by Zeros. Surviving crew members thought the ship was the Haruna, which was not permanently disabled until last July...
President Roosevelt, it appeared, started a trend when in 1941 he arranged a West Point appointment for Colin Kelly III, now 4, son of World War II's first U.S. air hero. Following along with many another school and college, New York University last week awarded its 17th Gold Star Scholarship to the child of an alumnus dead in war. The recipient: eleven-month-old Philip H. Davis Jr. of Chattanooga, whose father was killed while piloting a Liberator over Europe...