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...wrote Annapolis-trained, 34-year-old Lieut. Commander John Austin Collett, naval aviator, in the current issue of the United States Naval Proceedings. In the traditionally closemouthed Navy a young officer may speak his piece if it is technically sound...
...attack: in Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley's command in the South Pacific the Wasp was nailed by a Japanese submarine off the Solomons. To submarines or gunfire the Royal Navy has lost no less than four (Courageous, Glorious, Ark Royal, Eagle). Naming none of these names, Flyer Collett wrote...
...sidelines. So was Mrs. Holleran and Defending Champion Betty Jameson, generally considered the ablest of America's golfing sorority, who was put out by a bespectacled upstart named Janet Younker. Two or three rounds later they were joined by Mrs. Leichner, by six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare, by twice runner-up Maureen Orcutt, by other pre-tournament favorites. By that time the gallery turned its toes toward Betty Hicks Newell, a pint-sized 20-year-old from Long Beach, Calif...
Delta started in June 1929, when gruff, farm-minded Collett Everman Woolman deserted his profitable crop-dusting business (done with Huff-Daland Dusters and other hedgehoppers) to ferry passengers between Dallas and Birmingham. For 16 months it looked like a good switch: passengers were more lucrative than insecticides, and safer. But in October 1930, postal officials pushed him off the airline map, gave a fat mail contract to rival American Airlines. Disgusted, Woolman sold his passenger equipment to American, went back to dusting...
...Popular 36-year-old Glenna Collett Vare, who, still playing a superb game-although golf clubs are now secondary to her two children, her bird dogs and her shotguns-was eliminated in the first round of match play by a schoolgirl named Marion Brown...