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...pilots of hot ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
Died. Reginald Bathurst ("Reggie") Birch, 87, famed Victorian illustrator; in The Bronx Home for Incurables. Born in London, Bon Vivant Birch illustrated scores of magazines and books. For his drawings for Frances Hodgson Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy (which brought its author $350,000), Birch said he got $400 and two theater tickets...
This pungent language came last week, not from a New Dealing trustbuster, but from suave, 44-year-old William Burnett Benton, advertising millionaire (Benton & Bowles) and university vice president (Chicago), now executive secretary of the Committee for Economic Development. (C.E.D. is Big Business' biggest attempt yet to take the lead away from Government in postwar planning...
Divorced. Martha Foley Burnett, 40, co-founder and longtime co-editor of Story magazine; by bearded co-founder and co-editor Whit Burnett, 43; after twelve years; in Reno. Few hours later he married Hallie Southgate Abbett, 34, Reno divorcée of October...
...strictly military action, Scriptors W. R. Burnett and Frank Butler, and Director John Farrow stuck to the Wake Island log and made their record "as accurate and factual as possible." But the participants and their conduct at ease and in combat are fictional. The people who are supposed to give flesh & blood to Wake Island-a tough major (Brian Donlevy), a tough lieutenant (Macdonald Carey), a tough contractor (Albert Dekker), a tough team of comic privates (Robert Preston & William Bendix)-are sincerely invented and acted, but hopelessly unreal in so stern a context. Not even Brian Donlevy, who does...