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...Sergeant Gilbert Georgie Collier, 22, of Tichnor, Ark., who was injured when he and his commanding officer stepped off a cliff in total darkness deep in enemy territory. Collier refused to go back with the rest of the unit, but stuck it out with his commanding officer. They crawled back up the cliff, hid, were ambushed and separated. Collier was wounded, ran out of ammunition, and routed four of the enemy with his bayonet before being rescued. He died at a battalion aid station...
Players. The A.P., U.P., Look and Collier's named their All-Americas. In these ratings there was substantial agreement on several outstanding linemen: Ends Ron Beagle of Navy, Don Holleder of Army and Max Boydston of Oklahoma; Tackle Jack Ellena of U.C.L.A.; Guard Bud Brooks of Arkansas; Center Kurt Burris of Oklahoma. In the backfield, four of the season's brilliant stars ran away with the All-America polls: Quarterback Ralph Guglielmi of Notre Dame; Halfbacks Howard ("Hopalong") Cassady of Ohio State and Dick Moegle of Rice; Fullback Alan ("The Horse") Ameche of Wisconsin...
Make Up Your Mind (Thurs. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Guest: Constance Collier...
Patterns & Paris. Vogue's audience was as small as its view of the world until Conde Nast, who helped give Collier's its start, came east from St. Louis to buy the magazine and its 14,000 circulation in 1909. Elegant, wealthy Publisher Nast poured money into his new property, changed it from a weekly to a fortnightly and gradually expanded its coverage beyond the confines of Park Avenue and Newport. Edna Chase rose like a rocket through the magazine. By 1914 she was editor (at the age of 37) and began playing to the rising U.S. upper...
...beginning to look wizened when, at 29, he won his wings. Thereafter, throughout the monotonous, between-war years of fitness reports and training procedures, he lived only for naval aviation. As the first U.S. Navy officer assigned to command flying operations from the deck of a ship (the converted collier Langley), Pete Mitscher wrote the book on seaborne air power. And as tactical commander of the Pacific Fleet's fast carrier task forces in World War II, Mitscher the mediocre became Mitscher the magnificent...