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...George took special pride in his ancestor, Sir Sitwell Sitwell, an 18th-Century baronet who once hunted an escaped Bengal tiger over the Yorkshire moors with a pack of hounds. (Sir Sit-well's ghost occasionally appeared at Reni-shaw, peering gloomily through the glass front door.) Another ancestor was Lord Hutchinson of Alexandria and Knock-lofty, whose father succeeded in making one of his nieces the full-salaried colonel of a crack regiment. He protested bitterly when the War Office reduced the old lady to half...
Soldier of Fortune. Major Gregory Boyington, aged 31, of Okanogan, Wash., had shot down 26 Jap planes-six as a Flying Tiger, 20 as a Marine pilot in the South Pacific-without ever having been given a medal (TIME, Jan. 17) not even one of the 100,000 Air Medals which have been strewn (chiefly by the Army Air Forces) around the globe. Last week, three months after he had failed to return from a mission, Boyington's medal came through...
...specialists stationed at NSCS, your columnist thought it would be a good idea to obtain a firsthand report about these energetic individuals. He found that they were very amazing persons indeed. Chief Clem, the only chief in the Navy who pronounces "Idea" & "Idear," shares with Mickey Cochrane of Detroit Tiger baseball came the distinction of being one of the two graduates of Boston University to have won 12 letters. Chief Clem was left halfback in football right wing in hockey, fancy diving ace of the swimming team, and a tennis star winning three letters in each of these four sports...
...Ronson cigaret lighter; one Waltham wrist watch; one U.S.-made nail clipper; a colored picture of a tiger (possibly picked up during the Malayan campaign); a helmet with hollow pads in which was secreted a girl's photograph; a mosquito headnet ful of rice. . . . One other item lying near by turned out to be a white silk shirt, made in Sydney. Don't ask me what a Nip would be doing with a white silk shirt...
Pappy, pugnacious ex-wrestler and father of three children back in Washington state, had been racking up his score since Flying Tiger days under Claire Chennault. In China he had downed six Jap bombers. In the South Pacific since last summer he had become not only the hottest U.S. fighter pilot but the chief of one of the hottest U.S. fighter squadrons...