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SHAME ON TIME FOR DISTINGUISHING PETTY'S INDECENT VULGAR DISTORTIONS OF FEMALE FORM BY COVER PUBLICATION. MISS HAYWORTH'S PHOTOGRAPH SURELY SUFFICIENT. # Chief Boatswain's Mate. LET SUCH CRUDENESS STAY IN ADVERTISING WORLD WHERE SANE PEOPLE CAN IGNORE...
...Chief Boatswain's Mate...
Leonard Frontakowski, chief boatswain's mate, Norfolk...
...squadron of dive bombers-lean, bat-winged Junkers 87B, the first to appear against the British in the Mediterranean-streaking in from the north at 18,000 feet. In an instant the Illustrious was achurn. Over the loudspeaker system brassed the marine bugler's warning, the boatswain's call: "All hands to action stations." Gun crews jumped to their pompoms. Pilots raced for their planes. Down the deck roared the first flight of Fairey Fulmar fighters, bouncing up into the sky. Behind them the rest stood ready, propellers ticking over...
...boatswain piped the President ashore at Charleston, S. C., with four ruffles from the cruiser Tuscaloosa's band and a 21-gun salute, he set foot on a land whose serious mood had deepened immeasurably since his departure a fortnight before. There was disappointment in that mood: the number of airplanes being shipped to England was not 700 a month, as predicted last spring, nor 600, nor 500, nor 400, nor 300. The total was 177 to England, 102 to Canada. The shock to the national pride, if to nothing else, was acute. Men might rage or despair...