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Died. Lieut. General Roy Stanley Geiger, 61, grizzled, flinty-eyed pioneer Marine airman, hero of two wars ; of phlebitis and pulmonary complications; in Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital. Forty years a leatherneck, Geiger rose from private to three-star rank, commanded all land-based aircraft which helped .turn the tide at Guadalcanal, led Marine conquests on Bougainville, Guam, Peleliu, Okinawa, became the first Marine ever to command an entire army (the U.S. 10th), on the death of General Simon B. Buckner Jr.; succeeded General Holland M. Smith as commander of the Fleet Marine Force...
...Navy hoped to spend some $250 million on research and development in 1947. But planemakers feared that an economy-minded Congress might force the services to cancel those plans, along with a large part of their $679 million worth of orders for new planes already placed. Said one discouraged airman: "When Don Douglas starts saying things are going to be rosy you can bet there's going to be trouble...
...British-boy-meets-American-girl story is told with winning charm. David Niven is the British airman who finds himself falling in a burning plane. By radio, he shouts amorous-poetic speeches (he is certain they are his dying words) to a pretty WAC (Kim Hunter) on the landing field. Then he jumps-without parachute. Incredibly, he picks himself up uninjured except for a peculiar crack on the head that makes him imagine he is a fugitive from heaven. Throughout the film, the camera moves between a clinical study of lovesick Niven's brain disorder and the imaginary heaven...
...many an airman wondered if entering the light-plane field now might not be regarded as "Fulton's Folly." The industry had been pointing its nose towards the ambitious goal of 400,000 planes by 1955. But last week (after producing 26,974 planes since V-J day) the entire industry was losing altitude fast...
...welldigger (Raimu) is a widower trying to raise six daughters. The eldest girl (Josette Day), bored by the fumbling marriage proposals of her father's well-digging assistant (Fernandel), has a brief romance with a handsome air-corps" officer (George Grey). When her airman goes off to war and is reported missing, unmarried Josette disgraces her respectable father by giving birth...