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...colonel then took the President and his son out through a crowd of soldiers to a waiting car. Soldiers piled in around them. Truckloads of soldiers stood fore & aft. Off sped the cavalcade toward Popayan, 100 miles away...
...that "Es verboten' to walk in the driveway behind Morgan 3," the necessity for a door in that direction seems, in itself, questionable. So, we spent the week looking for a reason behind the new screened-box arrangement aft of Cowle, and have reached, after what might be called an exhaustive research, a startling conclusion. From those in the know comes a plausible, if not satisfying, explanation: To wit: Boston is a very cultivated and humane place. Along with Societies for the Continuation of Pilgrim's Day and the Prevention of the Slander of the Irish, is the Greater Society...
...gunnery training. Once trained, he coaxed a strictly temporary training assignment. He was good. A month later he was taken on as waist gunner by 23-year-old Major J. B. Epting. On their first combat mission, over Bizerte in Tunisia, the tail gunner was wounded and Ben moved aft. Steady behavior and crack gunnery in combat had done the job. He belonged...
...soon as installment No. 1 appeared, the Archbishop found himself raked fore & aft by the U.S. Protestant, liberal and leftish press for his praise of Franco. Wrote Archbishop Spellman in Collier's: "My impressions of him are in accordance with his reputation as a very sincere, serious and intelligent man. . . . Whatever general criticism has been made of General Franco (and it has been considerable) I cannot doubt that he is a man loyal to his God, devoted to his country's welfare, and definitely willing to sacrifice himself in any capacity and to any extent for Spain...
...picture concerning his brother, Jules, a member of the Naval Air Force who recently received the Distinguished Flying Cross...the tolerant, squinty smile on the face of the grim Ben. Stephens when he lost a shoo in radio engineering and called his stockinged foot while leaning on the aft bulkhead of Langdell (he couldn't double talk his way out of that one)...the spectacle of the artistic Bernie lange trying to teach his roommates the involved wigglings of the rhumba...the worried expression on A. J. Gregory's face as he stood anchored in formation while a squadron...