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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Godine, however, in his condemnation of the Flying Ace, disputed, in the first place, Rickenbacker's right to speak for a class which he didn't represent, in addition to the fact that the validity of many of his statements were highly questionable...
Briggs Hall was honored by the presence of Captain and Mrs. McIntosh at dinner last. Thursday evening., Libby Tyson, ace cartoonist of PIPTIDE, the WAVES' newspaper, executed some amusing place-cards for the occasion. After dinner the girls had the opportunity of meeting their guests informally in the living-room. Ruth Finke, Kitty Reumann, Elsie Koeliner, Jane Staiger and your columnist performed some songs written to order by your columnist. Betty Etrachan was the accompanist. One in particular was rendered with deep feeling...
...includes many peacetime instrumental stars: Benny Goodman's bass fiddler Artie Bernstein; 20th Century-Fox's concertmaster Felix Slatkin; Hal Kemp's ace trumpeter Mickey Bloom; Paramount's concertmaster Harry Bluestone (Master Sergeant Harry B. Blostein); Harry James's first trombonist Hoyt Bohannon; Toscanini's NBC cellist Edgar Lustgarten; Benny Goodman's hot trumpeter Manny Klein...
...defensive play of Jack Torgan, George Dillon, and Mike Keene was especially worthy of note. Torgan was assigned to high-scoring Guy McGauhey, and although the Bulldog ace made 11 points, most of his buckets were made on tip-ins, shots which the shorter Torgan couldn't touch. Outside the keyhole, McGauhey was from hunger...
Around Captain Eddie Rickenbacker swirled a storm of protest for his stern denunciations of absenteeism in war plants and general U.S. flabbiness. Union leaders howled bitter reproaches, called him misinformed, reactionary. Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson announced that the World War I ace spoke "as an individual and not as an Army officer." The sober Republican New York Herald Tribune allowed: "It does seem true that the World War ace lacks information on some of the obstacles to the all-out production effort he insists upon...