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Through the doors of the Colonial waterfront saloon in Buenos Aires wandered sea-weary Allied seamen whose nerves twitched from the strain of dodging torpedoes on the stormy Atlantic. The patrón, John Jacob Napp, was obliging, forever setting up drinks on the house and volunteering those bits of information and guidance so prized by sailors in strange ports. Napp was a good listener, too, and sometimes the seamen talked...
Nearest to Foss's record are his fellow Guadalcanal Marine flyers, Major John Lucian Smith (19) and Captain Marion B. Carl (16), but Foss still has not equaled the 26-plane score of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker in World War I. Joseph Jacob Foss, 27 years old, single, dark-haired and ruddy, medium big (5 ft. 10½ in., 182 lb.), is still under the score of the late Squadron Leader "Paddy" Finucane (32) and Wing Commander Adolph Gysbert Malan (35) and astronomically distant from legendary German Captain Manfred von Richthofen's 80, British Major Edward Mannock...
...like fiction's Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (ermine, a diamond tiara, a diamond & emerald necklace & pendant, diamond earrings, eleven diamond bracelets); Mrs. William...
...radio operator called me on the interphone and said: 'Sir, I've got a little fire back here.' I looked back. Smoke was pouring from the waist-gun ports. The bombardier-Lieut. Emmett W. Ford of Siloam Springs, Ark.-and navigator-Lieut. Jacob C. Shively of Indianapolis-headed aft to help. They were on the catwalk in the bomb bay when a shell plowed in and exploded alongside them. It blew the navigator down on to the bomb doors. It was good luck they didn't open. He had no chute...
...Business School speakers committee designed to put before the business student problems of current and future importance, through prominent national speakers. The speakers committee in the last few months has also presented informal talks by members of the Business School faculty. Tomorrow, under the auspices of the committee, Jacob A. de Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relations, will address the students...