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Last week Stanley was scheduled to be inducted into the Navy. But Navymen, after seeing his demonstration, asked for his deferment and commissioned the youngster to start working on a four-passenger Hillercopter...
Sirs: The competency of its construction, its style and technique-all, it seemed to me, was precision stuff. It exemplified just what I think George Ade meant when, years ago, he slipped a bit of seasoned advice to an aspiring youngster: "If it is your intention to push your way through life with a pencil you must first forget your college English and learn how not to write like Lord Macaulay." ARNOLD GERSTELL Philadelphia...
...Whitey" McNair was 58 when war came, but he was slim and fit and his mind was as flexible as a youngster's. Marshall called him "the brains of the Army." There was no new trick in war, whether British, German, Russian or improvised American that he was not ready to try, and to use if it were proved...
...black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks, Blackfeet, Hopis, and one youngster from Brooklyn who "had become a tribesman by the ancient ceremonial of cutting a finger and mingling his blood with that of an Apache. Beyond the standard paratrooper's armament, they carried the most bizarre equipment ever seen in modern Europe, including nylon garrotes made from stolen glider towropes...
...author of the Atlantic's series is Charles L. Webster's son, Mark Twain's grandnephew, corncob-pipe-smoking Samuel (for Clemens) Charles (for his father) Webster of Manhattan. His helper was his tiny, chipper, 91-year-old mother, Sam Clemens' niece and his favorite youngster during his Mississippi pilot days. Mrs. Webster saved the 500-odd letters through the years -literally in an attic trunk...