Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was so big a show that a Vice Marshal of the R.A.F., John Eustace Arthur Baldwin, commanded it. Germany, busy at last on too many fronts, did not have the tools to head it off. When the British planes roared home and crawled down with nice precision on the flare paths of their island airdromes, only 44 were missing. For such a show, those losses were low (4%). After such a show, naturally, the returned air warriors all had a good...
Sued for Divorce. By Faith Baldwin, 48, romancer for the women's magazines, writer of 40-odd novels (including Alimony, Love's a Puzzle, Men Are Such Fools): Hugh H. Cuthrell, Brooklyn businessman; after 21 years of marriage; in Bridgeport, Conn...
HARVARD PRINCETON O'Donnell, cf lf, Williams Waldstein, p 1b, McCarthy Harvey, 2b c, MacCoy Fitzgibbons, 1b rf, Peters Barnes, rf ss, Perina Callanan, c c, Baldwin Heath, lf p, Talcott Drake, ss 3b, Allen Whittemore, 3b 2b, Johnson...
...Hanson Baldwin, military editor of the New York Times, cautioned newspapers against over-accenting minor victories of the United Nations while under-playing defeats. "Don't play stories too big at first," he said, "for subsequent developments usually mitigate the value of the initial reports...
Everybody Chipped In. In December 1929, unfazed by the depression, a small group of men pooled their savings, started a little company giving maintenance and replacement-parts service to privately owned passenger amphibians. The shop was set up in an old tree-shaded garage in Baldwin, L.I., with less than 20 officers and employes. President and chairman was Leroy R. Grumman, who had engineering degrees from Cornell and M.I.T., experience in naval aviation (he enlisted as a machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president...