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PB2Y (patrol plane) may now be officially spoken of as the Coronado, the P-40F (fighter) the Warhawk, the SBD (dive-bomber) the Dauntless. But it was still hard to visualize a dusty, sweaty operations officer telling a pilot to "get in that Skymaster and take some food up to the boys at Buna." (Skymaster-C-54 four-engined transport...
...hundred years ago this week, a Connecticut Yankee named Ureli Corelli Hill* launched the Philharmonic Society of New York. Impresario Hill, who looked something like a burlesque Irishman, could not find a second trumpet player. But with a dauntless lack of finesse the Philharmonic gave its first program in the gaslit Apollo Rooms on Lower Broadway: Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, Weber's Oberon Overture and a Gargantuan assortment of operatic arias sung by a lady named Madame Otto. To finance his first season, Ureli Corelli Hill persuaded each man in the orchestra to chip...
Douglas SBD (Dauntless). The Navy's carrier-based standard dive-bomber (singleengine, air-cooled), this craft is the best in the world in its category. It will shortly be supplemented by a newer design, now in production...
Perhaps Tokyo was telling the truth. Perhaps troops were being moved out of China for the Manchukuoan or the Indian front. All China's dauntless, underarmed soldiers knew was that wherever they met the enemy, he took a beating...
...whole spirit of the picture is that of the present age, mellowed by maturity and a conception of deeper tragedy, looking back on a gangling and naive but ever enthusiastic and dauntless period of its development. Roxie had her brief burst of glory in a time when bigness was the sole criterion of success, when the papers were full of nothing but big murders, big investments, big swindles, big fortunes, big failures, and big trials. So a publicity mad public, a press that knew which side its bread was buttered on, and a lawyer to whom law was all Greek...