Word: issoudun
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Hatmakers of provincial Issoudun went about hatless. Their employers, wounded to the quick, locked them out. It finally took a deft coup de maitre to put everything right. The management agreed to buy each employe a new hat every year; workers promised to wear hats, at least when entering and leaving the factory...
...Mexico with Pershing's Punitive Expedition, he played his guitar, collaborated on a composition called the Punitive Rag, and when World War I came along sailed for France. There to his chagrin he was assigned to a pilot-training job at Issoudun...
...best-liked men in the Air Forces. He is also something of a legend. Trained at West Point, Spaatz entered aviation on the ground floor, flew in Mexico in 1916 with General Pershing's expedition. In 1917, assigned to build up an Aviation Instruction Center for Americans in Issoudun, France, he did such a bang-up job that the Army ordered him back to the U.S., to do the same thing at home. Tooey temporized, begged to see action first...
Such an epic could certainly be written about the airmen of the War. Poet Leighton Brewer has not done it, but he has shown the possibilities. A veteran of the U. S. Air Service in France, Poet Brewer sings a long paean to his old comrades of Tours, Issoudun and the Western Front. Riders of the Sky, "a combination of fact and fiction and legend," brings in many an actual person and event. Some of the characters: "Gil" Winant (now Governor of New Hampshire), Eddie Rickenbacker, the late Quentin Roosevelt, Frank Luke, "Hobey" Baker. Author Brewer's reference to himself...
Following the War, during which he flew with the famed 96th French Pursuit Squadron and directed training at Issoudun, "Casey" became test pilot for Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. As head (and founder) of Curtiss Exhibitions Co. he flew in practically all available races from 1919 to 1926, cleaned up so much prize money with his clipped-wing Oriole that for a time his department alone showed profits in the struggling Curtiss organization. Oldsters recall one race, at Dayton in 1924, which "Casey" failed to win. As usual he loaded as little fuel as necessary into his ship. This time...