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...with only prowl cars and radar traps, the Florida highway patrol has a three-plane air force. At a couple of dozen locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long...
...Real Rewards. The youngster from Glasgow, Ky., who dropped out of Princeton in his freshman year for lack of funds broke into journalism in 1907 as a cub reporter for the Louisville Herald. He covered his first beat on horseback, became a Washington correspondent for the Louisville Times just three years later. In 1915 he was home again in Louisville as editorial director of both the Times and its sister paper, the Courier-Journal...
...thought the Times spent far too much space and money on national and international coverage, while he concentrated on local events in a lighter fashion at less expense. Why should he pay for half the cost of printing presidential speeches verbatim? Replied a Timesman: "We paid for half the Cub Scout pictures in the Free Press...
...found the atmosphere at the University of Michigan less than congenial. While defending British colonial wars, he was hooted and hissed by the students; afterward, he beat an uncharacteristic retreat. Most of the boisterously anti-imperialist student body were happy to see him go. But Gustavus Ohlinger, a cub reporter for the campus magazine, thought his fellow newsman was worth a story. He trailed Churchill to his hotel, talked his way past an aide, and asked for an interview. Churchill ordered two bottles of whisky, and proceeded to entertain Ohlinger with his wide-ranging opinions until 5 in the morning...
...that Shadow should not be taken seriously, if at all, Frank Sinatra pops in as a soldier-of-fortune silot who quips, "Hey, don't leave me here alone, I'm anti-Semitic." Musical-comedy exuberance dominates a battle scene that has Sinatra aloft in a Piper Cub, bombing Egyptian tanks with Seltzer bottles and spraying soda at their planes. By then, the movie has trimmed its theme to fit the formula of any Clannish catered affair...