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...skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more spinning out of the air within 25 minutes...
...Barney Oldfield, oldtime auto racer, had a fight in Hollywood with "Prince" Mike Romanoff (Harry Gerguson), Hollywood restaurateur. Oldfield got a black eye. He said the argument started after Romanoff had tried to crowd him off the road. Romanoff declared that Oldfield had rushed up to him on the street, called him a "phony...
...Paramount Pictures, Inc. that set the pot boiling furiously. Paramount proposed to stockholders, for a vote on June 20, that Paramount should sell $2,000,000 worth of promissory notes to its egg-pated $141,000-a-year president, Barney Balaban, 56, also head of Chicago's Balaban & Katz. The notes would carry 2¼% interest, payable in seven years. During that time, President Balaban would be permitted to convert a fourth of the notes a year into Paramount common stock at a fixed price of $25 a share, as long as he remained with the company. Thus...
...present job General Barney is stationed in Washington and functions as second in command of all U.S. Army Air Forces. General Benny is commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in the Middle East, where he succeeded Major General Ralph Royce...
Both brothers are still active pilots but have shown special talent for organization and administration. Both are bighearted, good-cousin Texas types, with a slightly fatherly air toward young airmen. Barney is a shade more demonstrative, Benny a shade more reserved. They like the same recreations-bridge, poker, hunting-and enjoy a companionable highball, although they have shocked their Texas friends by developing a mutual preference for Scotch over bourbon...