Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engineer. The U.S. lost more than an ace pilot in Buzz Wagner. Before he joined the Air Corps in 1937 Buzz studied aeronautical engineering three years at the University of Pittsburgh, where he "failed to flash any scholastic lights." But he learned about airplanes and airplane engines as few pursuit pilots ever do. From what he learned in the acid test of battle, Buzz Wagner had keen ideas about improving U.S. planes. "Engineering is my profession," he used to say proudly...
...Methods. For this snappy comeback all nosegays go to production-ace Jack and his incredible business policies. J. & H.'s five plants - four in Bedford, Ohio and one in Cleveland - are a nifty combination of a college campus, a workman's paradise and zooming production. J. & H. has a band to rival Ohio State's, victory song and cheerleaders, boisterous parties to celebrate production records...
Into Mme. Tussaud's, famed London waxworks, went the parents of the late Air Ace Paddy Finucane to look at their son's image, found it had "not quite caught the look," spoke to the management, which promptly decided a ?100 remodeling job was in order...
Billy Harding, Freshman wing who was starting in his first game as a College student, proved the offensive ace of the day, pulling the hat trick and assisting in another goal...
...other job on the program, "Through Different Eyes," is another of the series of flashback-crime affairs, ably narrated by that ace yarn spicler, Frank Craven. It's not too tough to pick the murderer and everybody has a whale of a time making him confess. Craven's presence assures at least one good acting performance, and his supporting cast flounders along without mishap...