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...strength of the Corps, recorded daily on a chart in General Holcomb's office, stood at 37,500 (not including 4,000 reservists being called to active duty). At the training stations at Parris Island, S. C. and San Diego, Calif., young recruits were put in tow of hard-mouthed N. C. O.s in starched khaki, to be taught how to look, act and think like Marines...
Meantime the blazing Empress, her belly billowing smoke, paint sizzling off her like strips of bacon, was taken in tow. Up slipped a German submarine and finished her off with two torpedoes...
...bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked...
Highest score for the week was made by Australian Pilot Leslie Clisby, with 14 enemy ships, seven in one day. Coldblooded Pilot Clisby, 26, was seen engaging a Heinkel in action, then disappeared. Three hours later he turned up at the orderly room with two German prisoners in tow. After forcing the Heinkel down he had landed his own ship, chased the German crew into a wood, captured them at revolver's point. Pilot Clisby's commanding officer remarked it was a bit uncommon for pilots to bring back prisoners...
...always been a great newspaper reader. Combing the classified ads one day, she found one asking for a young actor to play black-polled Mickey McGuire in a series of shorts based on Cartoonist Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Trolley strip. Mom blackened little Joe's tow head with burnt cork, and for the next seven years Joe Yule Jr. made 78 Mickey McGuire pictures at $200 a picture. He also had his name legally changed to Mickey McGuire. But in 1932 Producer Larry Darmour shelved the series...