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Flushed with happiness, olive-skinned Lieut. Spiros Nickolas ("Steve") Pissanos, U.S. fighter pilot in Britain, thus haltingly voiced his appreciation of Army tape-cutting which had just made him a U.S. citizen as well. He had left his native Greece in 1938, landed in New York with $8, got a $13-a-week job in a bakery and within two months saved enough money to start flying lessons. He enlisted in the R.A.F. in 1941, later joined the Eagle Squadron and last fall transferred to the U.S. Fighter Command...
...Mayor's melancholy little flirtation with glory exactly followed the pattern of other recent Presidential appointments gone wrong. First his Army job was announced, unofficially but thoroughly, by Presidential Secretary Steve Early. The protests were then carefully weighed, the chances of Senate confirmation found wanting. Franklin Roosevelt then gaily told a press conference he had no intention whatever of making the Mayor a general...
...Died. Steve Vasilakos, 58, the nation's most publicized peanut vendor (outside the White House for 37 years); of a heart ailment; in Washington...
...defensive duo of Olie Taylor and Dick Mechem is still on hand, with Tom Cowen ready to lend a helping hand. Goodie Harding will start at goal, but Steve O'Neill and Gus Summers should see action before the tussle is over...
Goalies Goodie Harding, Steve O'Neil and Jim Summers feel slighted this morning. They were the only members of the Crimson hockey team who didn't have a hand in the scoring which took place in a so-called hockey game at Boston Skating Club yesterday afternoon, when the ever-improving rinkmen racked up their seventh straight win with a 13 to 2 pumineling of New Hampshire...