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...Heavyweights. Most favored grasshopper is called the L4, a military adaptation of the ubiquitous Piper Cub with the cockpit enclosed in plastic. The observer rides backwards to watch for planes attacking from the rear. His other jobs: 1) operating the radio; 2) keeping his weight down to 170 (to shorten take-offs); 3) studying targets and fire with naked eye (the grasshopper jiggles too much for field glasses). The L-4 cruises at 70 m.p.h., is powered by a 65-h.p. engine - far less than artillery pilots would like for a quick take-off and climb. Eventually helicopters may supplant...
Pride & joy of Henry Wallace is the Board of Economic Warfare. Last week he found it in mortal danger from Jesse Jones, the Administration's Old Man of the Sea. Like a mother bear with a cub in trouble, Henry Wallace attacked in full fury...
Wrigley got the moral support of two sound friends: Cub Attorney Paul V. Harper and Dodger Boss Branch Rickey...
Together they formed a trusteeship for their newborn enterprise, christened it the All-American Girls Softball League. To run its affairs, Wrigley hired the Cubs' former assistant general manager, curly-haired, canny Ken Sells. To round up talent, he released Jimmy Hamilton from his job as Cub scout. The design of a suit able uniform he put into the capable hands of famed Poster Artist Otis Shepard, who is responsible for famed Wrigley pixies, car cards, and glamorizing of Catalina Island...
...background are crowds of expressive Chinese faces and a few cub pilots who pay the price of inexperience. Despite the part played in combat sequences by the famous shark-toothed Curtis P-40's, "Flying Tigers" falls far short of the possibilities suggested by its namesake...