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...that the British had a few good points: after bailing out of a flaming Fortress over Tripoli, he remembered enough of an R.A.F. pamphlet on how to find food and water in the desert to get back to his outfit. For the next four months, Navigator Rosenson had a birdman's-eye-view of the British at work in Tunisia. Back in London last week, he was singing new words and a new tune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Voice of Experience | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...Quiet Birdman. Stocky, nerveless Jimmy Doolittle set at least a dozen speed records, owns almost all the important aviation trophies. But he is far more than a speed and a stunt flyer. Doolittle has been a ceaseless air experimenter: in 1929 he made the first complete blind flight. A second lieutenant in World War I, he chafed at being kept at San Diego as an instructor. He was an early member of the Quiet Birdmen, the group of flyers who set themselves apart from the kiwi, an almost, extinct flightless bird, and from the "modock," legendary aviation term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Heroes: Jimmy Did It | 6/1/1942 | See Source »

...amateur ornithologist snooped around the shore line of Long Island last week to see what the scum of oil from torpedoed tankers was doing to the wild fowl. Oil is bad for ducks. It gets into their feathers and feed, makes them sick, keeps them from flying. The birdman was relieved to see only one miserable, oil-smeared duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Ducks & Men | 3/9/1942 | See Source »

Evidence was then submitted to the court to prove that Birdman Staggs inveterately smoked Camels. He was found guilty & Camel-smoking Staggs was ordered to furnish each member of the court with a pack of Old Golds. C. BRINE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 18, 1937 | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

...lingers on, it won't be long now before she makes her appearance with a pair of wings, not the feathery kind that grace Gabriel and his cohorts, nor the horn-leathery ones of the Land of the Eternal Fire, but rather the modern everyday type made famous by Birdman Lindbergh and Flying Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD MOTHER ADVOCATE PULLS IN SKIRTS AND GROWS WINGS | 11/22/1935 | See Source »

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