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Only a Beginning. Luckily for the pilot, Squadron Leader Douglas Robert Steuart Bader, R.A.F., it was an artificial leg. He parachuted to German-occupied France, losing his freedom but not his life. Bader is a square-jawed Englishman with a remarkable past and an even more remarkable spirit. He was only 21 when, in 1931, he suffered his first and most serious accident as an R.A.F. pilot officer. His right leg had to be amputated at the thigh, his left leg below the knee. For many it would have seemed an end. For Douglas Bader, it was only a beginning...
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...
...such sharpshooter is debonair Kurt Bader, 36, an ingenious German whose flair for showmanship unhappily surpasses his marksmanship. With his wife Hildegard, Kurt billed his show as "Aal Cherry & Mac Zero, the World-Famous Sharpshooting Act." His act involved a machine like an egg beater, across which pretty little Mac, arrayed in shorts and bra, could be tastefully spread-eagled and rotated as a "human windmill." Last week, after putting their two daughters to bed in a hotel room nearby, Aal & Mac went into their act at Cologne's Kaiserhof Theater. Their eleven-year-old son Hubert strapped...
...scientists, the biggest trouble is that the arctic is a poor laboratory. The very mechanics of existence are too tough to leave time or energy for experiment. So the Army took over the empty laundry in Wilmette. Directed by Swiss-born Henri Bader, snow-and-avalanche specialist, the Army Corps of Engineers turned the three-story building into SIPRE (Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment...
...Chemistry 20: first prize to John Pinker. Second prize to Alfred R. Bader...