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...operations room "somewhere in the Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya...
...biggest laugh, he gave 13 straight shows. "Hello, stinky," Charlie would chirp from inside his floppy sheeplined coat & hat, and Bergen would reprimand him for his discourtesy to men in uniform. Thereupon Charlie would crack: "Don't give me that lieutenant routine." That was enough to split the sides of the soldiers. But what really spilled them into the aisles was Charlie's comment as an unidentified plane zoomed overhead: "Here they come, fellows," cracked Charlie, "those yellow-belly bastards. I'll mow 'em down!" Posing behind an advanced gun emplacement, Charlie observed...
...basis of his tie with Al Everts for the University championship last fall, Freedman is seeded number one. He and Everts split sets, but they never played off the third set after postponing it that day. Everts is not entered this fall, so Freedman is in the spot-light...
Arriving in Cambridge at 10 o'clock, the guests will split up to attend morning classes. The two Russians will go to History 55b, given by Michael Karpovich, associate professor of History, while the Englishman and the Batavian will go to Economics 81. The Chinese student will visit Radcliffe during these two hours. For the second class period the Batavian and the Englishman will visit Government 4, while the Russians attend an Economics A class where the subject for discussion will be "The Exposition of the Classical Theory of Free Enterprise...
Before December 7, 1941, this country was seared by a Lewis-Murray split within the CIO, a CIO-AF of L fight within the general ranks, and a Labor-Management struggle within the nation as a whole. Since Pearl Harbor, two of those splits have undergone a healing process. The government has taken control over all negotiations of wage contracts. Both Mr. Murray and Mr. Green have sworn off jurisdictional disputes. And right now a series of meetings is being conducted in Washington by the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, NAM, CIO and AF of L "to explore ways...