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...driven by pride, rather than narrow acquisitiveness. He had a Spartan sense of duty, discipline and self-control. He was an airman's airman who respected a good mechanic as another man might respect a concert pianist, and who felt that all good pilots were touched with greatness. He liked to see other .men succeed. He had a hellraiser's humor and an odd humbleness which prevented him from posing as a man of destiny. And at his core-steely, stainless and incorruptible-was a gladiator's indomitability...
...weeks after the U.S. declared war, Rickenbacker was sworn in as a sergeant, went overseas as a driver attached to General Pershing's staff. He had a stroke of luck-he was assigned to drive Billy Mitchell around France in a Hudson Super-Six. He badgered the famed airman for a chance to fly. Mitchell finally gave...
...Navy seemed unable to silence truculent Captain John G. Crommelin, but it could at least slow him down. Airman Crommelin, told to stop denouncing unification and the "Prussian-minded" Department of Defense, had disobeyed. Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman ordered him placed on indefinite furlough at half pay, beginning next month. The order, by stripping Crommelin of his flight pay and allowances, will reduce his monthly paycheck from $1,041.75 to $334.87. Obviously the Navy hoped Crommelin would take the hint and leave active service: he was eligible to retire at $452.08 a month, based...
...evening last October Yvette went to a cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed...
Intent Man. At 53, Forrest Sherman is the youngest man (and first career airman) to be Chief of Naval Operations. A stocky man (5 ft. 9 in., 168 Ibs.) with a rolling, pigeon-toed gait, he has none of the traditional sea dog's look of shaggy-browed sternness. His smile is quick, friendly but curiously remote. His eyes appraise impersonally without open -approval or rancor, like the eyes of an airman inspecting an engine. Always, he keeps an air of detachment...