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Seaman First Class Leon LeRoy, 18, had an emergency leave and a No. 3 priority. He was on his way to Antioch, Calif. to comfort his recently widowed mother. At Memphis Bluejacket LeRoy was told to get his gear off the plane: his No. 3 priority had been trumped by a No. 1; 300 pounds of critical material was" coming aboard. A Seabee and an Army technical sergeant, both on their way to ailing wives...
Captain Lee Maxwell of our San Francisco office is another of our men who wears the D.F.C. (As pilot of the "Puffing Hussy," he has gone on 51 bombing raids, once brought his crew safely home from an unescorted mission even though enemy fighters had shot away his landing gear. Only casualty was the toy elephant he carried as a mascot.) Second Lieut. N. Robert Drake of our newsstand department has the D.F.C. and the Air Medal with five Oak Leaf clusters (a bombardier, Drake was shot down over Sicily, captured by the Nazis - for 18 months now has been...
Since then the A.A.F. has found the pickup just the ticket for rescuing stranded soldiers from rubber boats, jungles, remote islands. Pickup gear-ropes, poles, harness -is dropped first. The man below then sets up his rig, waits confidently for the plane to come back, hook on and whisk him away. The A.A.F. is already experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used...
...merrily, through Mellon C and D. Ray Wible took one look and put in an emergency call to report the situation to the B.D.O. Dressed in a Lilli Dache model bandana, white gloves, and red stockings, Larry succeeded in throwing the holiday spirit and the disbursement assignment into high gear in short order...
...identify this skirmishing of the sexes with class warfare, 2) to resolve all class distinctions in the clinch. The one thing that gives this thousandth version any novelty is Alan Ladd's triple-chilled proficiency at handling all the tricks of making love in reverse gear. This is as interesting to look at, in a simpleminded way, as someone drinking a glass of beer standing on his head. But it probably takes a great deal more talent...