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Previously, Gabby had shot down 27 foes in air combat, was thus tied for top U.S. scoring honors with Majors Dick Bong of Wisconsin and Bob Johnson of Oklahoma. A Pennsylvania boy himself, Gabby wanted to be high gun when he took a 30-day leave and went home to Oil City to marry his girl...
When a man is healthy, the sound of his heartbeat is a solid, relatively high-pitched bong; when he is ill, it is a dullish, soggy boom. The highest heart sound is somewhere at the bottom of the range of a bass viol; the lowest is inaudible to human ears, even with a stethoscope. A delicate device to record these sounds on photographic film has been developed at Du Font's Haskell Laboratories by Dr. John Henry Foulger and Physicist Paul E. Smith Jr. The device consists of a microphone strapped to the chest, and a foot-long...
Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...
...Bong is unquestionably an excellent combat pilot. He is risking his life daily (as are millions of others). He is the American Ace of Aces. For these things let him be given all possible credit. But these facts do not make him a charming social companion, a diplomat, or a conservative flyer and driver...
...said last week. (No Westerner rightly knows how Russian airmen's scores are figured.) Britain's Group Captain Adolph Gysbert ("Sailor") Malan and the late Brendan ("Paddy") Finucane, each with 32, are the Western Allies' top scorers; the U.S.'s are Major Richard Ira Bong and Captain Robert S. Johnson, each with...