Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command, a favorite bull-session yarn tells of a new sergeant at Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion...
Reach for the Sky is the unique story of how Airman Bader rose to heroic heights. Author Paul Brickhill, a wartime R.A.F. flyer himself, tells Bader's story without slushing about in sentimentality. He combines hard, muscular prose with a dignified simplicity that will bring tears to the eyes and laughter to the lips of many a reader...
...year after Johnson's death. Boeing searched the U.S. for a new boss. As Boeing lawyer and a director, Bill Allen led the hunt. Finally, in desperation, Boeing's board tried to convince Allen himself that he was the man for the job. He was no airman, but he knew Boeing's finances inside out. Allen was stunned, did not even want the job. In his diary he listed his misgivings: "AGAINST-1) I do not feel I have the qualifications. That's the all-compelling reason. 2) Trouble lies ahead. 3) Lack of seniority...
Farewell to Arms. In Cedarburg, Wis., Airman James R. Frank wired Captain John F. Greenslade, Corpus Christi (Texas) Naval Air Station, "Request seven-day extension: muskies running in northern Wisconsin," was granted the extra week...
...helpful idea: "Don't let the log readings tie you down. Put them in-let them punctuate the story. They give . . . a subconscious sense of time-a beating undertone . . . Leave them there-stark on a page." In his hour-by-hour chapter leads, building up the statistical suspense, Airman Lindbergh did just that...