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...lets his deputy, quiet, able Roy Maxwell Drummond, handle most of the administrative problems. He likes to pop into the desert headquarters of the debonair Antipodean, Arthur Coningham (whose nickname "Mary" is corrupted from "Maoris," the name of the fierce New Zealand aborigines). He frequently pops into squadron posts and tells maintenance men to ask him questions. They take the Chief at his word: "When are we getting rid of this bloody antiquated lathe?" Air force men of one unit, not recognizing the coatless man who stopped by one morning, started kidding him about the regulation black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF AFRICA: Wings Over the Desert | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

...always a $10,000-or $12,000-a-year job with an automobile or aviation company waiting for Rickenbacker; he shuttled between the two. He also took over as operator of the Indianapolis Speedway; in his spare time he wrote adventure strips (Hall of Fame of the Air, Ace Drummond). In 1938 he found his real niche as the hard-driving president of Eastern Air Lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: Captain Eddie | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

R.A.F. commander, Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham, nodded in assent. So did Acting Air Marshal Roy Maxwell Drummond, deputy commander in chief of the R.A.F. in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF AFRICA: The Prelude | 11/2/1942 | See Source »

...Cerny, Jr., D. W. Chapman, W. C. Clark, J. M. Clarke, C. N. Clyde, Jr., C. A. Cottrell, G. L. Crain, J. L. Davenport, G. R. Davis, R. F. Dawson, R. B. Decker, Alfred Dennis, Richard Driscoll, F. S. Drummond, D. F. Ehritt, C. A. Ernst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 125 Naval Officers Chosen for New School | 7/27/1942 | See Source »

Theophilus Parsons scholarship to Daniel T. C. Drummond Jr. of Auburn, Me.; candidate for A.B. Bowdoin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Law School Awards Made | 4/16/1942 | See Source »

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