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...ghost, leaving the ghost to go to heaven. The Stone of Scone is carted off to America by a Pittsburghian Scot in order that it may be safe from the English. On the occasion of its departure a send-off is given in the pub by a bag-piper which is pleasant if you hae Scotch blood in you. Another tantalizing feature of the play was the Scotch displayed on the shelves of the pub. Plenty of Haig & Haig, Johnny Walker, and Vat 69 was prominently visible...
...Command into the Air Forces' largest single unit. By year's end, with the big end of its job already done, the Training Command had 531,416 officers and men (exclusive of about 500,000 students). It also had more aircraft than any combat air force. From Piper Cubs to Fortresses and Liberators, the total was about...
...From Piper Cub liaison planes into the shell-pocked snows of the Apennines fell bundles of food and ammunition-and news. The Army's oldest divisional newspaper was still on the job, and the most remote patrols of the Italian front got their copies. The 45th Division News had cranked out a special four-color holiday edition...
...Lewis, the Pied Piper of Happiness, Ol' Man Sunshine, the Medicine Man for Your Blues, the High-hatted Tragedian of Song, was back in town. A quarter of a century had passed, and incredibly, the old show was still going on. Among the bamboos and potted palms of Manhattan's Hurricane restaurant, he cocked his shabby topper over his ancient and leering eye and abandoned himself to his 1920 classic When My Baby Smiles...
...Heavyweights. Most favored grasshopper is called the L4, a military adaptation of the ubiquitous Piper Cub with the cockpit enclosed in plastic. The observer rides backwards to watch for planes attacking from the rear. His other jobs: 1) operating the radio; 2) keeping his weight down to 170 (to shorten take-offs); 3) studying targets and fire with naked eye (the grasshopper jiggles too much for field glasses). The L-4 cruises at 70 m.p.h., is powered by a 65-h.p. engine - far less than artillery pilots would like for a quick take-off and climb. Eventually helicopters may supplant...