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...Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras); on a reconnaissance flight over Europe. Saint Exupery, veteran of over 13,000 flying hours, was grounded last March by a U.S. Army Air Forces officer because of age, was later put back into his plane by a decision of Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, flew some 15 flak-riddled missions in a P-38 before his disappearance...
...79th Division: Major General Ira T. Wyche, 56, pocket-size (5 ft. 6, 135 lbs.) West Pointer; a field artilleryman in World...
...Battalion of one of the 9th's regiments stormed Fort Equeurdreville, a citadel like a buried warship at the extreme left (west) of the line. In the center Major General Ira Wyche's 79th Division smashed successive layers of Fort du Roule; on the right Major General Raymond O. Barton's 4th Division drove to the waterfront...
...Ira Clifton Copley figures that the time is ripe to set up shop in more small cities and print "chatty, back-fence community newspapers like we knew as children." Only that sort of paper, he is convinced, can compete with radio and national news magazines in the years ahead...
...Ira Copley already owns 17 such dailies in Illinois and southern California, including two in San Diego (TIME, March 6). Last week he launched a 25-year expansion plan. As first steps he: 1) upped Scripps-Howard-trained Edward Thompson Austin to be his chain's executive editor; 2) set up a Washington bureau; 3) secured Associated Press franchises in four Illinois and southern California towns which now have no dailies; 4) prepared to build at least four new plants...