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...good behavior went principally to 34-year-old Walter W. Waters, originator of the Washington march, who was selected last week as the B. E. F.'s commander-in-chief. Tall, lean, sunburned, Waters first saw service on the Mexican border. Then he went overseas as a sergeant for nearly two years with the 146th Field Artillery. Mustered out, he married a blonde slip of a girl from Valparaiso, Ind., took her to Oregon where he worked as superintendent of a canning factory, had a house of his own, a car, two little daughters. Eighteen months ago he lost...
Like many a rebel against orthodoxy, George Grosz was a youngest child. His father was a restaurant owner, of the same solid bourgeoisie the son now satirizes. In the War, Grosz fought first in the Kaiser Franz Regiment, then in the 52nd, became a sergeant, was invalided without a wound...
Still aloft after 17 hr. were Goodyear VII, whose pilot Roland J. Blair won the 1930 races; and Army No. 2, manned by a happy-go-lucky lieutenant and sergeant who called themselves "The Harmony Twins." After being shot at by Manitoba farmers (an incident of most American balloon races) Goodyear VII succumbed to prairie winds, her ballast exhausted 50 mi. southeast of Regina, Sask., about 700 mi. from Omaha...
Meanwhile "The Harmony Twins" Lieut. Wilfred J. Paul and Sergeant John Bishop-let the drag ropes of Army No. 2 down within grasp of two farm boys near Gull Lake long enough to get directions to Regina. On they sailed for another eight hours, finally being beaten down by rain at the end of 29 hr. near Hatton, Sask. about 1,000 mi. northwest of Omaha. Surely a record for bags of 35,000 cu. ft., their distance possibly beat the U. S. record of 1,072 mi. for balloons of any size...
Radio Patrol (Universal) is a story of the radio-car police. Robert Armstrong and Russell Hopton, rookies at the police training school, painfully learn their lessons from Sergeant Sidney Toler, get rough &-tough themselves. At the graduation dance Armstrong takes Hopton's best girl, Lila Lee, later marries her. The two cops work together in the same radio patrol car. Armstrong takes bribe money because his wife is going to have a baby. When Armstrong tries to drive the car out of the district to leave the bank-robbers a clear field, Hopton forces him to drive back, fight...