Word: em
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dutch Kindelberger, then a humble engineer, now president of North American Aviation . . . had one flight [in two years], thanked me, said, "I'll build 'em, you fly 'em," and never asked for another...
...piece of his thumb: "He just looked down at it and laughed and kept on going. That damn fool has plenty of guts." The story of another "casualty" got around: "He got shot pretty bad in the shoulder but he won't even come in to let 'em dress it until he finds the mucker that shot him. He's still out there pokin' his rifle in all the holes and shootin' like hell and gettin' shot at a million times a minute." At great risk from shore batteries, destroyers ran close...
...Folks. There is square-dance music, a female duo singing something like Back in the Saddle Again, a comedy rube act, a "Western instrumental trio," and Cousin Emmy, who best describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
...Bless 'em all. Bless 'em all, the long and the short and the tall." That's about the way the Naval Officer Procurement thinks of its WAVES even though they did just take a poll of 100 New England female officers to find out what they were getting...
...George Avaklan, who is one of the country's leading jazz critics and the man who produced so many good records for Columbia and Decca that even he hasn't got 'em all, enjoys nothing better than reminiscing about the old days in Chicago. He freely admits that during those old days he was in New York and somewhat unaware of the joys of gin, Jazz, and allied pursuits; but then Gibbons never met the Caesars, and at least George knows the Chicago boys as their mothers never did. This is the first of what's tending to become...