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...Works. The boss of Chennault's Pappy is Captain Robert C. ("Willie") Williams, 27, a onetime law student at the University of Michigan. He is a small, inconspicuous man with baby eyes and a drooping, straw-colored mustache. Even in his leather jacket he looks more like an overworked bookkeeper than a combat pilot. His co-pilot is ruddy, burly, deliberate Lieut. Warren ("Junior") George Jr., 22, from Palestine, Tex., once a ham-handed tackle at Houston State Teachers College. Said Junior...
Some Japs did get across; bullets rained down on Schmid from treetops. The water jacket on the machine gun was shot into a sieve; a grenade blew the gun into junk...
...prayer and a life jacket are just about all there is to rely on when a torpedoed seaman takes the big jump from his sinking ship. Kapok-the silky, white, feather-soft down from the pods of the kapok tree-is the buoyant filling of most life jackets, many life rafts and lifeboat airtight compartments. It can support up to 35 times its own weight. In peacetime, kapok's biggest use was in mattresses, upholstery padding and the like. Most (and the best) kapok came from Java. The Japs put a stop to that. Now, as demand soars, rigidly...
According to a jacket blurb, this is a "new kind of history." It isn't that so much as an attempt to extend an old and honorable type of history into a throughly discredited field. As a first approximation to an honest history of business, "The Age of Enterprise" far surpasses its predecessors...
...decided at first that it would be easier to slip from corner to corner, to steal a jacket from a gardener's shed, a cloak from a blind man, to lie hidden in a nearby cathedral "under the eyes of six arch-chancellors of the Holy Roman Empire...