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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handmade Talk. Sponsored by the Air Forces Training Command, this convention was a joint affair, with Navy and Marine experts on hand to exchange opinion with Army flyers. Daytime was given over to lectures and demonstrations. After dinner the men sat around and talked, with many a gesture. (Combat flyers illustrate aircraft maneuvers by poising their hands one above the other, making their points with swoops and waves...
Walter Ollen, chairman of the affair, promises a skit by each platoon, good chow, plenty of suds, entertainment by Baker members of the NTS Swing Band and if Buzzie Buskirk, Chet Travelstead, Merv Lysing, Pete Francati, Frank Davis, and Jim Oliver give out the way they did in the Yard the other night... it will be a whopping success...
...Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member of the original Mound City Blue Blowers; and, of course, Art Hodes, at the piano. College musicians are urged to sit in with the band and make the affair a real jam session. But whether or not you play, you shouldn't miss this. There hasn't been any such jazz in these parts for months...
Waiting last week on the African mainland to put the sick and wounded from Sicily to bed was the Charlotte, N.C., Evacuation Hospital, an all-tent, mobile affair, with over 1,000 cots and a big staff of doctors, nurses and enlisted men. Correspondent Ernie Pyle has told how this evac took in patients twelve hours after the U.S. landing near Algiers last November...
First Sgt. Morris Isacowitz, who arranged the Swampscott affair, also had high hopes for a fishing party for 30-odd men, but it is at least temporarily postponed, for the excellent reason that fishing by private parties in Boston Harbor is frowned upon these days...