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With the reams of blurb that have obstructed its path, however, the show has been somewhat anticlimactic. Gary Cooper is still the hero of Sergeant York etc. but he is cast well enough to make it seem right. The rest of the cast is as good an assemblage of true dramatic talent as the screen has offered these past few years...
Sued for Divorce. Army Air Forces Sergeant Joseph Paul Di Maggio Jr., 28, peacetime Yankee centerfielder, by Dorothy Arnoldine Olson Di Maggio, 25, blonde ex-cinemactress; after four years of marriage and two coy visits by her to Reno within the last two years; in Los Angeles...
...last week the unsavory cases at the Michigan air base were concluded. The court ordered a dishonorable discharge for Master Sergeant Myron B. Collins. The charge: accepting bribes for his "influence and action" on improper enlistments and transfers. He also got prison time: 18 months' confinement at hard labor. Collins, 37, eleven years an enlisted man, had testified against his superiors in the previous cases. Said he ruefully when he heard the sentence: "Wasn't that a dandy...
...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...
Said quiet Sergeant Benko, grey-haired at 32: "I never worked that turret so fast before." His quick shooting brought his total score to 16 Jap planes, three more than Colonel Bruce Holloway's, ranking ace of the Fourteenth Air Force. It also made him top gun among all aerial gunners in the A.A.F...