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...five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third baseman for the Washington Senators...
This week brought the proof for which all Greater Boston aestheticians have been waiting. It may prove the need for fewer symphony intermissions, or chaperoned opera boxes, but whatever the ultimate result, a lost frat pin for Heindel is the immediate one . . . With Hope's recuperation, we are again intact. The does have diagnosed his case as "strep" throat, but with Bunyard's pneumonia, Noel's flu, and Johnson's (either one) general condition, that's hard to understand--I guess this married life affects different ones in different ways . . . On the other hand, with a ski party planned...
...China's Roman Catholic Bishop Paul Yu-pin. Fresh from meeting optimistic Franklin Roosevelt, the Bishop announced to reporters that China was more optimistic than ever...
Kwajalein is only one of several Marshall strongholds. But Kwajalein is in the heart of the group. Some of the other islands can be left to wither. Submarines and aircraft can choke them off and pin them down, render them useless to the enemy and no longer a threat. If it is necessary, U.S. troops can clean out enemy garrisons. Wake to the north and Nauru to the south will also have to be taken or knocked useless by air power...
Washrooms are full of fuss and flutter, and the babbling confusion of Marines in undress waiting to take showers, crowding around mirrors to put their hair in curlers and massaging their faces with creams. In the grey dawn they comb out the pin curls, feverishly powder noses, paint on lipstick (which matches the Marine red hat-cord) and dash off to breakfast and their duties...