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...raft in the Pacific with Eddie Rickenbacker's shipwrecked airmen, Lieut. James C. Whittaker saw the stirrings of a national movement. "We all saw Johnny reading his Bible, his freckled face solemn as an owl's and the sun glinting on his red hair," he wrote in his new book We Thought We Heard the Angels Sing. "No one kidded...
...44th birthday last July, Ken Walker was a sight. In contrast to the bronzed, grimy pilots of his new command, breezy little General Walker was pale from his months in the Army War Plans Division at Washington. His huge sunglasses made him look like a long-nosed owl. Like most airmen in the Pacific, he wore shorts but, like no one the airmen had ever seen, he also wore leather riding boots...
...pilots soon discovered that Ken Walker was no long-nosed owl. He went on three bombing missions the first day, in three different types of bombers-and came back disgusted: "Hell, we didn't hit anything." Thereafter, he went on many another raid, figuring out ways to improve the score. When the bombardier dropped his bombs Ken Walker was up front watching him. And when the Zeros swarmed in, the general went back with the side gunners. Sometimes he manned a gun himself...
Barbs and Thunders. For resolving all manner of political tides (from Isolationism to Stalinism) into concentrated aid to the war effort-and at the same time preserving high scholarly tone-the credit must go very largely to big, booming, businessy Bachelor of Science Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with "owl")-'13, president of the university since 1930. No Ph.D., he became university comptroller at 29, prexy at 38. Many scholars winced at this raising of administrative talent over learned distinction. But Sproul imagined and organized a great staff of scholars, an academic mammoth...
Burma "as a cruel punishment lasting three months and administered by six tattooers," Constantine had 388 designs on his body, 52 on his abdomen and buttocks alone. In addition to two crowned sphinxes, two serpents, two swans and one horned owl, he had genuine Oriental writing between his fingers which branded him as "the greatest rascal and thief in the world." But he was not much more elaborately illustrated than England's onetime army officer, Zebra Man Omi (see cut), who sports a 150-hour job by London's tattooist George Burchett...