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...long pole snatched 50-lb. dummies off the ground. Then a sheep was tried. The first one was hauled into the plane with its neck broken. The process was gentled until experimenters were finally ready to try the trick on a man. Lieut. Alex Doster volunteered...
Bundled in a special harness, lying (in the foetal position, which was thought to be safest) between two poles which held up a nylon loop, Doster watched a Stinson Voyager plane swoop down, suddenly felt himself lifting easily. ("No jerking sensation at all.") A winch pulled him up into the belly of the plane...
First time in history such aerial whoop-de-do has been made over a branch of the U.S. Army, the program came into being as a consequence of the activities of ebullient Master Sergeant Clay Doster, editor of the slaphappy Panama Coast Artillery News (TIME, June 9). Few months ago Sergeant Doster was given the tough job of getting some good radio shows for minuscule PCAN and PCAC, which provide four hours of entertainment a day for the 30,000 artillerymen scattered through the lonely Panama jungles...
Lacking funds, Entrepreneur Doster appealed to NBC for help. Forthwith C. Lloyd Egner, head of NBC's radio-recording division, got together a ton of top-flight recordings, dispatched them to the Zone. Among them went a series of recordings made especially for the Jungleers by Actress Lawrence, now an honorary Jungle-Mudder, 1st Class...
...Department order recently forbade the News (and other Army publications) to identify units on duty in the Canal Zone. Caught by this instruction just before his deadline, Editor Doster remade his paper, slapped together a rough-house satire on censorship in general. Private Buford Carter, one of the News's self-trained staff artists, drew a lush nude, crossed out her mouth, breasts, belly and calves, and captioned it: SORRY, GANG- THE NEW REGULATIONS PROHIBIT THE PUBLICATION OF PICTURES OF EQUIPMENT...