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...Another Texan turned Canadian was Air Gunner Raymond Carroll, veteran of 40 operational flights. Said he: "I married an English girl and as soon as this is over I'm going to settle in Vancouver." The crowd yelled approval...
...Cicco, cafe-famed as Gloria Vanderbilt's husband, also as a onetime "assistant wolf," took a double-barreled beating in a Manhattan nightclub. Di Cicco, an Army Air Forces lieutenant, was amusing himself by loudly abusing a small, meek newspaperman. A quiet Texan by the name of Benny Bickers objected. Di Cicco called him something, neglected to smile. Benny knocked him down. Di Cicco left the club, waited for Bickers in the street. When the Texan came out, di Cicco took off his coat, put up his dukes. Benny knocked him down again. What di Cicco learned the hard...
Just before dark, the sleek, fast B-26 Marauder circled her English air base and slipped in to a smooth landing. Technical Sergeant William L. Stuart, a taciturn, red-haired Texan, heaved an eloquent sigh, rubbed his grease-stained hands together, got out his tools and prepared to go to work...
...Texan Creager's action was significant of the growing rush to the Dewey bandwagon. Heretofore, Ohio's Bricker was generally understood to have inherited the support of the South's "kept" Republican delegations which Ohio's Taft acquired in 1940. Some political dopesters now concluded that Warren had everything that was coming to him, that Dewey's running mate will turn out to be John Bricker-who is now the only candidate, Republican or Democratic, who has thrown his hat into the ring and jumped after...
...calm, slightly greying artist at the controls of his P-38 Lightning. He had at least 21 Jap planes (plus seven probables) to his credit, had received the Congressional Medal of Honor in January for shooting down six enemy ships in a single engagement. For a time after that Texan Kearby was miserable in a New Guinea desk job. But he maneuvered himself back to combat duty four weeks...