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...Force Captain George H. French of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks...
...garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force (a pilot instructor in B-17s and B-29s), Stokey returned to broadcasting, amazed that no one had yet put The Game...
Everyone who has glanced aloft at the high, feathery cirrus clouds knows that they often move at impressive speed, but until the U.S. B-29s began bombing Japan, no one realized just how hard the high winds could blow. Sometimes the bombers were even blown backwards by head winds approaching 200 m.p.h...
...Students' League, then to Mexico for a year. In World War II he ended up in Saipan as a private, first class, with the U.S. Army Air Forces, painted murals for the enlisted men's clubhouse, and cheesecake figures (at $50 apiece) on the noses of B-29s. But even the Army failed to cure Cloar's wanderlust. Out of uniform, he took off for Mexico and South America, then on to Europe...
...Wives. Sofu's revolution was just beginning to win converts when World War II put an end to such civilized luxuries as flower exhibitions. Sofu kept on practicing his art in private; then the B-29s which knocked out Tokyo demolished the Grass Moon School building. Sofu's postwar comeback owed much to Mrs. Douglas MacArthur, who, Sofu says, "had a good basic understanding of the nature of Japanese flower arrangement." Some 6,000 U.S. occupation-force wives took up Sofu's style; about 400 of them earned the Grass Moon certificate, are qualified to teach...