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Father of two children, and expecting another, Postman Stewart told police that the Lord had appeared to him in a dream, commanded him to restore the practice of polygamy which the Mormon Elders abandoned in 1890. Postman Stewart had written to Miss Christensen and to three other Salt Lake City girls, asking them to help him "fulfill a command from the Lord and take on another wife." Miss Christensen had turned her letter over to the police, agreed to act as a decoy...
...while Daniels was Secretary, the Navy shelled the Mexican port of Veracruz, ousting the revolutionary Government of General Victoriano Huerta. By 1916 the U.S. was at war with Mexico. Daniels later denied that he had ordered the attack. But Mexicans did not forget that he was technically in command of the Fleet...
...plane goes into a steep dive and Mac, his eye to the bombsight, takes command: "Right a bit. Left a bit. Steady at that!" Four bombs are short, but the fifth, a 1,000-pounder, whangs the target with an explosion that drowns the plane in white light. Twisting and turning to get out of the searchlights, F for Freddie heads for the Channel and home...
Target's cast is unlisted, but some are recognizable, others known: Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; "Speedy" Powell, the blond, curly-topped Wing Commander (O.B.E., D.S.O.), who led the first over-the-Alps raid on Venice; the rugged Group-Captain (D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar), a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The crew of F for Freddie, which devoted three months to making the film, have made more than 200 flights over Germany...
...jeep, a stubby, bouncy crossbreed between the half-ton command car and the motor tricycle, is as ugly as a bull pup. It has a wheelbase of only 80 in. (Ford V8: 114 in.) and a fourwheel drive that provides enormous traction for its 42-h.p. engine. It has no trouble pulling light field pieces, can skitter along a road at 60 m.p.h. Designed to replace motorcycles and sidecars for reconnaissance work, it can go anywhere a cycle can, and a lot of places a cycle can't. It can be used as a troop carrier (three men easily...