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...combats as bitter as any the war had seen. Eighty-eight Nazi ships were shot down; 63 U.S. bombers and 14 fighters were lost. From that raid Lieut. John M. Gibbons, of Jefferson City, Mo., returned with one of the strange stories of the war: his bomber, the lone survivor of its formation, had nearly been knocked down by a dead enemy. Eighty German fighters had attacked straight into Gibbons' formation. Said Gibbons...
...smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina in C Entry Chase has you puzzled, blame it on Kelly Hunt, pride of the Lone Star State...
...elevator signal buzzed in International House, the massive 13-story lodging place built by John D. Rockefeller Jr. for foreign students. The elevator man had a blind right eye, but as he stopped the car he turned to look at his lone passenger. She was Valsa Anna Matthai, 21, a pretty Indian girl from Bombay, a Columbia University student. She was not wearing the Indian sari pulled over her hair, but a bright kerchief; and as she walked out of the empty, lighted lobby, the operator noticed she wore a tan polo coat, dark slacks, and sport shoes...
...many of the pilots aboard one of the Navy's big carriers were Southerners that a plane dispatcher just naturally started waving them off with the Texas Lone Star flag, instead of the usual checkered square. This caused small comment. But when the dispatcher switched to the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy, it was too much...
Oddly in contrast to all this was the case of the British Empire. The world would never forget the Battle of Britain nor the debt it owed for the lone fight when the battle looked hopeless to the frightened. But the Empire, 55 months a combatant, had lost comparatively...