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Last week, in England, Squadron Leader Browne was awarded the Empire's coveted Distinguished Flying Cross. Said the citation: "This officer has displayed a high standard of skill and courage in operations against the enemy. He is an excellent leader. .. . ." Browne was the 102nd American R.C.A.F. man to win a British or Canadian decoration. Some others: ¶ Squadron Leader John Harvey Curry, 4g. A Texan (Dallas), he enlisted in 1940, won the D.F.C. and the Order of the British Empire...
...Milky Way. In Chicago, Mrs. Catherine Copulos celebrated her 102nd birthday, announced that she had quit drinking a daily glass of port wine, now takes a glass of milk...
Though the war in North Carolina was only a sham battle, Private Roland Sauter of the 102nd Coast Artillery Brigade came close to being a real casualty last week. Stationed with an anti-aircraft unit at an abandoned farmhouse near Fort Bragg, he was moseying around for some soft weeds on which to spend the night when he suddenly dropped 30 feet into a dried-up well. He yelled. The echo was terrific, but nobody came. He tried to climb out, but the well walls crumbled under his clutching hands. After a while rats began to munch at his shoes...
...discovered that Brunette had lately married a resident of upper Broadway, set a watch on her family's house. At this point, according to police, the G-men offered to join forces with them. Together they traced Brunette's wife to a ground-floor apartment on West 102nd Street. Two New York detectives, one New Jersey trooper and one G-man were planted in the same house and in an adjoining house. Plans were made to seize Brunette, a daytime sleeper, one afternoon last week...
First came the troops, their uniforms a martial palette. Militiamen in grey & white from the "Old Seventh" Regiment; the jist Infantry in blue & white; the 102nd Engineers in scarlet; the 102nd Medical Unit in maroon; the "Old Sixty-Ninth" in blue with green facings; the "Washington Grays" in grey with flashing sabres. Cheerful CCC workers livened their olive drab uniforms with sprigs of hemlock in their caps. Their banner announced: "We Do Our Part For The NRA; We Work In The Woods...