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Airman Thach confidently expects to learn the art-and soon. Says he: "This is like a chess game; each piece has a different value. By playing them together, by using the submarine-which has the biggest ears-and the aircraft-which has the longest punch-and the airship-which has the quietest touch-you win your game...
...airplane did not go away, and neither did Mitchell. Topping a series of crashes, the Navy airship, the Shenandoah, was ripped apart in an Ohio line squall. Thirteen officers and men were killed. Two days later Mitchell dropped a journalistic blockbuster. "These accidents," he announced to the press, "are the result of the incompetency, the criminal negligence and the almost treasonable administration of our national defense by the Navy and War Departments...
Died. Rear Admiral (ret.) Herbert Victor Wiley, 62, veteran of the U.S. Navy's ill-starred $100 million dirigible program of the '205 and '305; in Pasadena, Calif. As skipper of the airship Los Angeles, "Doc" Wiley directed the first release and pickup by a dirigible of an airplane in flight (1929). Transferred to the new $5,000,000 Akron, he was one of three survivors when she crashed off the New Jersey coast in 1933 with a loss of 73 lives. He became skipper of the Macon, helped save all but two crew members when...
...opened to a general relapse to ancient methods of savagery." The Washington Post: ". . . Since all the nations at war have violated some compact or other . . . suffocation by gas is as decent a method of murder as blowing up trenches by mines, torpedoing a vessel or dropping bombs from an airship...
...There (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS-TV) is another radio veteran making the switch to TV. Its basic idea: to recreate events of the past as though they are news stories of the present. Unfortunately, the show flunked its first two assignments: the 1937 destruction of the airship Hindenburg, and the 1882 killing of Jesse James. You Are There's chief trouble is a tendency to meander instead of march to its dramatic climax. Also, its characters are too wordily aware of their place in history. The sponsor (on alternate weeks): America's Electric Light & Power Companies...