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Volckmann's Ilocanos, aggressive and stealthy, had reasonably good military discipline, permitting their wives and girl friends to come along only when the woods were not too full of Japs. Their own leaders included a guitar-strumming Visayan (major in the Philippine Army) and a dashing, bantam-sized onetime provincial governor and newspaper reporter...
About all AVCO did not buy from Powel Crosley Jr. was his Cincinnati Reds baseball team (National League), and rights to the bantam, two-cylinder, $350 car on which Crosley took a flier before the war. He has hopes of redesigning it as a more successful four-cylinder car, and has a quota for auto production in the reconversion period...
Take a Chance. All this was disconcerting but not discouraging to Chicago Corp.'s bantam-sized president, Richard Wagner, 48. Born of poor immigrant parents in a down-at-heels section of Chicago's North Side, Dick Wagner started to earn his own living at 14 as a bank runner in Chicago's Continental bank. He scooted up fast. At 16, he was secretary to the president; at 19, he was writing speeches for bank bigwigs; seven years later he was a vice president...
General "Hap" Arnold picked George Kenney from behind a desk and sent him to Australia. "Sir, I am your airman here," said brisk, bantam-sized Kenney when he reported for duty...
...damn it, George, you'll kill them all," protested the General. Kenney said he was damned if he would; MacArthur was convinced. The bantam moved in men, ammunition, food, vehicles. MacArthur's coastal campaign...