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Army pursuit pilots never spoke of "Buzz" Wagner except in superlatives. He was to them the best, the bravest, the hottest pilot-and the swellest guy-in the Air Forces. They said he could buzz the camouflage off the top of a hangar without touching it. Once, in the Philippines, he shot down a Jap Zero while he was flying upside down. He knew how to get between the Japs and the sun, then pop them off while they were blinded...
...survivors watched her end. Some turned away. Almost all have asked for another carrier assignment. To the men of the Yorktown, the ship was the bravest hero of them...
...still proud, resolute, massively beautiful. As she lolled at anchor in the Willamette River in downtown Portland last week the sunbeams wriggled through her superstructure, flicked over the letters OREGON. Once she was the bravest battleship in the U.S. Fleet, the heroine and toast of the whole U.S. Now Washington had consigned her to the junk heap, where her 10,300 tons of steel, copper and brass could be turned into fighting metals for World...
...Germans did their best to 'get' the cathedral," said Dean Johnson after the raid. "They singled it out, dive-bombed it and hoped to burn it to the ground if they couldn't blow it to pieces. The bravest of fire guards, who worked within inches of death for over an hour throughout the bombing, spoiled the diabolical plan...
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...