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...Diamond is one of the brightest legends in the legend-studded Marine Corps. Accuracy is his passion. He likes to talk about a baseball game at Tientsin in 1934, when a Marine batter hit a line drive that killed a sparrow in flight. In this accident he sees a higher goal for precision marksmen. His other passions are beer, which he guzzles by the case when it is available, and Marine recruits. Youngsters in the Marine Corps fear the grey-maned giant as much as they respect...
Last week Lou Diamond's friends at San Diego did not know exactly where he was. One report had him somewhere in the South Pacific, wearing a grey beard, trying to figure out how to hit an airplane with a mortar shell. Lou never could forget that batter who brought down the sparrow...
...From the Middle East, where Allied bombers pounded Hitler's African outpost at El Aghéila, U.S. Liberators set out for the second time in two weeks to batter Naples. Since the crippling of Genoa the Axis depot for supplies to Tunisia has been the city of the superstitious Neapolitans. The Italian High Command admitted "heavy damage in the harbor area and in the center of the town," reported 57 dead, 138 injured...
Sales $36,000,000. When war broke out Interstate's parts business soared anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers...
...legislation brought before it during the last few months. Pre-election jitters are excusable: post-election oats-feeling can hamstring the whole wartime program. The Poll Tax fizzle and the War Powers fiasco leave Congress with two strikes against it. In most leagues a count like that puts the batter on the spot...