Word: deserter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II. As Director of Training Plans he was general manager of the Commonwealth's pilot-training program for a year and a half. Then, as a member of the Air Staff, he saw the R.C.A.F. in action from Britain to India. In the North African desert, his jeep ran over a land mine. Lucky Campbell's worst injury was a broken eardrum (which has healed...
...circles as Toni Seven). Heiress to an estimated $3,000,000, Toni is the daughter of Silent Star June Caprice and Director Harry Millarde. While the tabloids were still eating up every new rumor, the Senator appeared in Washington. Had he and Toni been married in the desert? Said he: "Completely absurd." In Hidden Valley, Calif., Toni said: "I feel very bad about the whole thing . . . I love him enough to step out of the picture if publicity would hurt his career...
...dropped from a high-flying B29. Last week, trying something new, it took off from the ground for the first time under its own (four rocket motor) power. Piloted by 25-year-old Captain Charles E. Yeager, the first man to fly faster than sound, it streaked across the desert at Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., and was airborne after only 2,300 ft., a shorter ground run than most standard fighters require...
...hired by a rich Parisian marketcer to do some gold smuggling, which, of course, is nothing at all to a former leader of the desert patrol, etc. Unfortunately, the young man's charm, or something, is so tremendous that in no time at all he has the wife, the secretary, the daughter, and the maid all madly in love with him. But with the daughter it's real, and she gives up her bourgeois notions about truth. The final curtain finds her fixing breakfast for her "emperor of China...
...Egyptian sea and air raid, which did little damage, looked like a grandstand act to save face at home. On the battlefronts in the Negeb desert, the Christmas war was grinding to a halt, and the Jews once more were the victors. In ten days they had driven the last Egyptian from the territory assigned them by the original U.N. partition plan, and occupied almost all the southern desert up to Egypt's border. Only at Gaza and the Faluja pocket were the Egyptians able to hold...