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...have at hand the 1941 Navy Register, but I believe that the proportions in the 1940 Register are substantially the same, except for some 350 naval aviators appointed into the regular Navy from the Naval Reserve during the fiscal year 1941, most of them in the grades of lieutenant (junior grade) and ensign. . . . The figures as of July 1, 1940 . . . [indicate] that Academy graduates number 94.9% of all line officers...
...Francisco. Willis T. Geisman's family lives in an upstairs flat on Ramona Avenue. His father owns the building, rents out the downstairs, works in the basement as a photofinisher for neighborhood drugstores. Willis was his father's assistant through grade and high school, went to the University of California, went to Alaska as a Government photographer. He joined the Marines in 1940, was stationed first in Shanghai...
Uncle Harry (by Thomas Job; produced by Clifford Hayman in association with Lennie Hatten) is a Grade-B thriller-which, in the present sad state of Broadway, makes it one of the notable events of the spring season. Overlengthy dialogue makes the play move too slowly, overmuch plot makes it run too long. With more work (on the author's part) and less play, Uncle Harry might have come closer to being a first-rate psychological thriller; it contains a sound idea, clever characterizations, some skillful writing, and a neatly ironic tone...
...field because Anthy 1 happened to be a snap at their respective alma maters. And then there are the four prominent industrialists who, as worldly Harvard under-grads, enrolled in a notorious Cultural History of the Moslem Empire in Spain with sincere intentions of passing with the gentlemanly grade of C minus. But the enthusiasm which the professor held for this fascinating field inspired them to such feats of scholarship that they not only got A's but agree today that the delightful classes were the most enjoyable part of the four years...
Glider Pilots will be chosen from aspirants with one or more of the following qualifications: (1) holders of currently effective Civil Aeronautics Administration airman's certificates, private grade or higher; (2) holder of lapsed CAA certificates, private grade or higher, provided expiration was subsequent to January 1, 1941; (3) applicants who certify they have completed 200 or more glider flights; (4) former Aviation Cadets or Aviation Students who have been eliminated for flying deficiency after successful completion of the course of elementary; (5) men who can present a letter signed by a CAA District or Regional Flight Inspector or Flight...