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...away and joined the Marines at 16. Then he got in the Army, lost half his jaw and won a D.S.C. as a Third Division infantryman in World War I; joined the Air Corps after the war. In 1934 he plummeted from 60,613 feet in a stratosphere balloon, coolly waited for the bag to get low enough so that he could breathe when he parachuted. In World War II, Billy Kepner became chief of the Eighth Air Force Fighter Command. He is now deputy commander for air in Operations Crossroads (the Bikini atom test, postponed last week-see NATIONAL...
When Harry Truman went to Fulton he knew what Churchill intended to say. Whether or not he read the speech, he had been briefed on Churchill's views. Afterwards he could gaze on the magnificent trial balloon and watch the effect as the world, and Russia, reacted...
...Japs' balloon-bombing campaign against the U.S. had always looked fantastic, but not until last week was it clear how much effort had been expended on it. The Army & Navy, after digging through enemy archives, summarized their findings...
...apparent Jap attempt still puzzles CWS. Two bottles of water drifted in from the Pacific by balloon. One was no more polluted than tap water in some careless cities' municipal water systems; the other, for reasons known only to Tokyo, contained sterile water...
Alternating Georgina's mental balloon ascensions (murderess on trial for her life, high-minded mother of twins, poison-swallowing streetwalker, emergency Portia triumphing in The Merchant of Venice) with her muddled, mundane romances, Dream Girl shoots at nothing much higher than fun. For the first third of Georgina's day, it shoots pretty wide of the mark, is more forced than funny. But once it gets going, it spins merrily along...