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...Come Home." That rescue was only the first of Manning's many newsmaking exploits. He saved Flyer Lou Reichers after his plane had fallen into the Atlantic; twice, in port, he dived over the side for men overboard. He learned to fly, made Sunday inspections of his ship from the air, and blasted the crew next day if he found anything not shipshape...
...after night at the clubs where Desi's band was playing, but that resulted in rings under her eyes rather than a new intimacy. She tried cutting down on her movie work by starring in a CBS radio show called My Favorite Husband, and Desi also took a flyer at radio. They worked out a vaudeville act and toured U.S. theaters with their new routines...
...second carrier* and seventh U.S. naval vessel to bear the name), the 37-knot Hobson was a veteran of many a sea battle of World War II. She was racing along off the carrier's port quarter on "plane guard"-ready for rescue work in case a flyer missed his landing and crashed. Under the impact of the collision the Hobson sank almost instantly, with many of her complement of 14 officers and 223 men asleep or helpless below. Amid a glare of searchlights, the carrier's crew began rescue operations. Other destroyers raced in to help...
Businessman's Flyer. Antoine Pinay, 60, was on a Paris-bound train when the stationmaster at Dijon handed him President Auriol's telegram inviting him to try his hand at forming a cabinet. Pinay, an Independent Republican, had never considered himself a likely Premier. With his neat crinkly hair, his long thin face, glasses, and his trim little mustache, he looked just what he was: a small-town French businessman...
Kenneth Walker, eminent British surgeon, put his faith in the gods of Harley Street: scientific method and a good bedside manner. Off duty, he indulged his yen for the fanciful in a voyage to India, a flyer in Paraguayan railway shares, a children's book about Noah's Ark. The strains of 20th century life left him wishing, now & then, for a good latter-day ark. In 1923, a friend startled him by announcing that "a small group of people now in London . . . has started building one." When Walker asked for the new Noah's name...