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...Haynes, who handles a bomber as another man would handle a pursuit, was in the pilot's seat. We were in the air with bombers and fighters strung out behind us. Haynes's second in command and copilot was Major William E. Basye. Black-haired, poker-playing Butch Morgan, longtime associate of Haynes's, was in the bombardier's compartment. This was a tough mission and Haynes was putting his best...
...with the earlier model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...
There's a movie which is almost worth sitting through. Its title, "Butch Minds the Baby," should man something. It concerns a gangster, Broderick Crawford, who is reformed by minding a baby, and a cop, Dick Foran, who is a bit too faithful to his part. Faning Virginia Bruce fades in and out occasionally. The picture is a little too long, its plot a trifle illogical, but its dialogue can't always get away from the fact that it was adapted from Damon Runyan, and is consequently good. If the omission of the "Harvard Blues" is considered an unpardonable...
Inside OCD's brier patch Fiorello LaGuardia was bounding around like a snarled-up bandersnatch, uttering encouraging yells, while the briers made rips in his reputation. Butch himself admitted that he might be attempting too much, trying to run New York City and OCD all at once. A lot of people were sure of it -the House of Representatives, for one lot. Flatly rejecting the Senate's liberal plan to give OCD unlimited funds, the House voted to appropriate $100,000,000 but to put the Army in charge of spending it. For Butch, not a nickel...
...that point, President Roosevelt had to do something. Rather than fire Butch, he pulled his favorite trick: appoint another man to ambiguously equal authority, and leave the rest to nature. As "executive" director of OCD, he appointed Dean Landis. Washington predicted that Congress, mollified by this move, would now give OCD the funds it wanted. (The Army, too busy with other things, does not want the civilian-defense...