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...Antonio's tortilla-flat Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
Charles E. ("Commando") Kelly, famed Congressional Medal winner (40 dead Germans in 20 minutes), settled down to the peaceful task of running a Pittsburgh filling station. Said he: "It's an honest living. I like...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...
From the start, he was no communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...