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...victory. It would be particularly pleasing to the Coastal Command of the R.A.F., for previously all the spectacular British torpedo-bombing had been done by the Fleet Air Arm with Fairey Sword-fishes-rickety biplanes trussed up with as many outside stays as grandma's corset. (These "string bags" nicked the French battleship Strasbourg as she fled from the Battle of Oran, had crippled three heavy units of the Italian Fleet at Taranto, slowed the Vittorio Veneto in the Battle of Matapan, had crippled the Bismarck.) But this operation was being carried out by brand-new, twin-engined monoplane...
...captain of the 1942 undefeated Freshman football team, which boasted such luminaries as Spreyer, Lee, Peabody, Gardiner, Miller, Ayres, and a host of others but during his Sophomore fall he played on the Jayvees, and emerged into prominence last fall only in the Brown game as a third string blocking back, where his work was deemed by the public at large to be very efficient...
...launch torpedoes the Fleet Air Arm used antique wire-stayed biplanes, which carrier pilots refer to as "string bags." These planes had to approach to within 500 yards of their targets at about 20 feet above the water. They were presumably covered by a plane-hung smoke screen...
...year's crop was a bumper. Slugger Slaughter had led the early-season attack, with a batting average of .400, but the rookies had followed through like veterans. At second base, little Frank ("Creepy") Crespi displayed some fancy fielding; at bat, big Walker Cooper, filling in as first-string catcher, proved a valuable newcomer to Slaughter...
Mineral Water Salesman Hal Collins, with a radio following, a string band, a dialect entertainer, introduced a new trick at campaign rallies: he gave away a mattress to the largest family present. But when O'Daniel entered the race, Hal Collins dropped out, saying, "Anybody with an ounce of brains would know it's the only thing...