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...Watlington Flyer is a friendly little train that chuffs the nine branch-line miles between Princes Risborough in Buckinghamshire and Watlington in Oxfordshire. Just one coach and an ancient engine, it sometimes waits for regular customers, has been known to back up for panting latecomers. One day the Flyer's fireman, Anthony Benham, 22, tooted the train's whistle at pretty Janet Croxford, 19; in due course Anthony asked for twelve days off to marry Janet...
...deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent to a laundry, where they infected three more people. By this week...
CAPT. "WHISTLIN' JOE" ROGERS, 26, of the 36th Squadron, Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group, had probably killed more North Koreans and Chinese than any other flyer. During World War II, to his disgust, he had been an instructor, saw no combat. He had made up for it in Korea. Air Force men liked to talk about Joe's exploits- his trick of barrel-rolling when he came in for a strafing run, the time he attached a whistle to one of his wings to scare the enemy, thus earned his nickname. The story they liked best...
...beef of history, as he served it in the Hornblower series, to take up a cold contemporary potato like Randall? Says Forester: to convey the impact of fate on a man "who has lived through the wars and the depressions." In two projected novels, Randall is due for a flyer in high finance and a dive into the submarine campaigns of World...
William Wheeling's adaptation of the old Germanic "Gypsy baron" folk tale, is masterful; he works some good dialogue into the search-for-the-pot-of-gold story, and his lyrics, especially for "A Flyer into Pigs," and "Peace-Loving Man," are unusually clever. Unhappily some of the dialogue is not properly stressed because the actors merely exchange lines without moving where better stage direction would provide some movement on strong speeches. Wheeling also uses some of his lyrics for exposition when they would be better as dialogue...