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...priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
...took six months for Lawrence to be discovered and tossed out-the Air Ministry considered his enlistment alarmingly unconventional. But in those six months Lawrence had captured all the impressions he needed for a corrosive study of barracks life. Later, he talked his way back into the R.A.F. as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (he took the name legally), and claimed to wish no other life. But before his death in a motorcycle accident in 1935, he brought together his old barracks notes, and some thoughts on military comradeship, in The Mint. By Lawrence's instructions...
...Aircraftman K. Robinson, home on one-day leave and already the father of two, named his latest Linda, Carol, Pauline and David, reported that each has a"quiff of fair hair...
...infest such scenes beat against the court's doors. Behind the doors was beginning one of the most sensational murder trials in Manhattan's legal history. Justice, as men understand it, was being meted out to Wayne Lonergan, handsome, six-foot, crop-headed Royal Canadian Air Force aircraftman charged with murdering his socialite wife last October...
...Aircraftman, 2d Class. In Winnipeg, confusion kept right on tagging along with A. C. Tew, AC 2, of the Royal Canadian Air Force...