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America's 3,258 women pilots last week got an invitation to spread their wings for Britain. In Manhattan famed Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, who flew a bomber to Britain last June, announced that she was setting out on a tour of ten U.S. cities to recruit female flyers for the British Air Transport Auxiliary. The project was blessed by CAA and the War Department, also by Jacqueline's great & good friends, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt...
...Miss Cochran (wife, in private life, of Tycoon Floyd B. Odlum) expects to find 375 U.S. women pilots, to augment 200 U.S. males now flying in the Air Transport Auxiliary. Women who get in will be paid an average $4,000 a year. First candidates are expected to be in Britain, ready for service, within five weeks...
...Harvard Freshmen will line-up with two changes from the team which lost to M.I.T. 23-16. Tom Cochran, who was ill at the time, will be wrestling the 145 pound post, and Doug Barr has replaced Les Ritner in the 165 pound class...
...Harvard line ups: Varsity: Jim Reidy (121), Harry Blaine (126), Bill Taylor (136), Dick Thomas (145), Don Miles (155), Harold Tine (165), Lee Sosman (175), Vern Miller (H.W.). Freshman: Bob Sanford (121), Fred Greenhalge (128), Al Page (136), Tom Cochran (145), Gus Hemenway (155), Doug Barr (165), Charlie Gudaitis (175), Frank French...
...Yardling lineup in the different weight classes is as follows: Bob Sanford 121-1b., Fred Greenhalge 128-1b., Al Page 136-1b., Tom Cochran 145-1b., Gus Hemenway 155-1b., Leslie Rittner 165-1b., Charlie Gudaitis 175-1b., and Frank French heavyweight...