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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...
Germany invented ersatz during World War I, staked her economic survival in World War II on a big program of synthetic substitutes for gasoline, rubber, leather, textiles and even foods. In spite of this advance preparation there is now a serious ersatz shortage in Germany. Substitutes for substitutes are the topic of most of the German scientific news reaching the American Chemical Society, mostly from refugees in England...
...There were no women doctors-and particularly no "hardbitten doctors," no "tough-as-leather assistants"-no "henbrained," no "vengeful" ones; and no burlesque queens or Fifth Columnists in the Nurse Corps on Bataan...
...command of the operations against the west African coast is roaring, gimlet-eyed Major General George Smith ("Georgie") Patton, 57. A hell-for-leather cavalryman before World War I, Patton emerged finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine...
Playwright Kenward's baker's dozen of women is carefully-perhaps too carefully -varied: a hard-bitten doctor, her tough-as-leather assistant who lives on benzedrine, a hen-brained Southern girl, a vengeful English one, a onetime burlesque queen, a Brooklyn babe, an unconscious Lesbian. Under incessant gunfire, they grow jittery, wisecracking, quarrelsome, valiant. In the last tense scenes, as realistic bombs and anti-aircraft fire literally rock the theater and the audience, the Fifth Columnist holds the other girls at bay with a revolver after the shelter entrance is blocked. At the end the Japs drive...