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Anti-aircraft fire got some of the Japs. One was knocked down, according to the Navy, less than 100 yards from the carrier, as he tried to crash the flying deck. Through their own heavy anti-aircraft fire, U.S. Navy fighters whipped after the Jap. Continued McCarthy...
...quarter hour on the air has over an eight-column front page in the matter of keeping emphasis where it belongs. Boldest comment yet ventured by a newscaster on the press's sense of proportion was made by CBS's Elmer Davis, apropos the Carole Lombard crash story. He said with justice that headlines and stories took precious little account of the 15 Army airmen in the same crash...
Depositing his loot in a barrel in an empty storage room on the top floor of F entry at about 2 o'clock in the morning, with a crash which did not arouse the suspicions of night-owl thesis workers, this year's version of Snooperman pounded down the stairs before chase could be given...
...roar and crash of cannonade and the bursting bombs that are shaking my typewriter, and my hands, which are wet with nervous perspiration, tell me without the need of an official communique that the war ... is today in the outskirts of this bastion of empire. . . . Don't expect to hear from me for many days, but please inform Mrs. McDaniel . . . that I have left this land of the living & dying...
...round man outside athletics -after college Everett Case took five years of postgraduate parlaying at Cambridge (England) and Harvard. Then he went to work as Owen Young's personal secretary at General Electric. He also did secretarial jobs for banking committees (trying to stave off the 1933 crash) and NBC's advisory council. At NBC he met and married his boss's only daughter, Josephine, who was working in NBC's educational department...