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...that the traditional emblem had a bad drawback: from certain angles on the wing of a plane diving or turning in the sun, the red heart of the star could be confused with Japan's plane marking-a large red disc (known to U.S. flyers as "the meatball"). Trigger-nervous gunners occasionally fired on planes that turned out to be American. So the red circle was painted out, leaving a plain white star...
...Ladies Only. The women's final brought together two red-gold coiffured stylists, sturdy Louise Brough (rhymes with rock) and the trim 1942 champ with the trigger backhand, Pauline Betz. Miss Betz had a tough three-set tussle to renew her title...
...Roger "Trigger" Sherman must have lost his wooden gun for we've missed all those dead Japs lie's been plugging round the Yard of late with his wooden 45 and silver ammunition...
...hunter" pulls a trigger, releases a high-pressure charge which saturates the air of tent, hut, or dugout with a quick insect-killing mixture of sesame oil and extract of pyrethrum flowers, vaporized by Freon. Aerosol, says the Army, tracks down mosquitoes to the last, remote fold of clothing and tent. Chief producer of aerosol is Westinghouse. But Freon is still the essential spreading agent of aerosol...
Horowitz' virtuosity is sustained by a hair-trigger temperament. He approaches concerts in a state of panic, achieves relative calm only when his spring-steel fingers are actually at work. So serious did his nervousness become in 1935 that he gave up playing publicly for two years. Yet from the audience, Horowitz seems as coldly efficient as one of his arpeggios...