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...widow with the pale blue ribbon of the Medal of Honor. The Sebilles' 19-month-old son tottered about waving the boxed medal, while Mrs. Sebille watched a parade in her husband's honor. He was the 31st U.S. fighting man and the first Air Force flyer to win the nation's highest decoration in Korea...
Pained Cries. Nobody was more embarrassed than ex-Newspaperman Mulroy, who protested that he only bought the stock as a "flyer," long after the 1949 bill was passed. "I wish the damned thing hadn't turned out to be so successful," he lamented. Snapped his old employer, the Sun-Times: "Racetrack operators don't cut people into their profits without a reason . . . if Mulroy doesn't understand this he's not smart enough to be an assistant to the governor...
...March 3, 1946, Russian papers carried the news of Vasily's promotion to major general. Red army men saw five-star Marshal Zhukov pop to quivering attention before one-star General Stalin. For beating up a veteran flyer, Vasily was broken back to colonel, but soon had his star back. The phone buzzed incessantly between father & son. In 1947, Vasily was recalled to Moscow. In 1948 he led his first Aviation Day air parade. In 1949, word came that he was commanding general of the jet fighters charged with protecting the Moscow district...
Appearance: Husky (6 ft., 200 Ibs.), jaunty, bluff, with a rakish flyer's tilt to his gold-braided...
...throttle-busting flyer, Quesada won his wings in 1925, studied engineering, learned to pilot every plane from wasplike pursuits to lumbering amphibians. At the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., he concluded from a year's study that close air support of ground troops is the key to modern...