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Birch went to China as a missionary in 1940, and was caught there by Pearl Harbor. In 1942, as he was trying to find a way to enlist, the war literally dropped in on him. He was taken one night by a native to a man who had fallen out of the sky. The fallen: Lieut. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle. Birch led Doolittle and a group of the survivors of the Tokyo raid to safety, then joined the unit that later became General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force and began a remarkable career in air combat intelligence. Wrote Chennault...
...foamed with dramatic ideas, which perplexed and sometimes distressed the White House. His idea of writing in a clause to include mandatory bomb shelters in every FHA loan contract was quietly shunted aside. Shelved too was a plan to enlist churches in the civil defense program, and it took the firmest kind of official persuasion to keep Ellis from flying off to Rome for a papal endorsement...
...important for many people to think how they can best serve the objectives of the Peace Corps whether or not they ever enlist in it," President Bunting commented...
Yaleman Cavanagh traces his priestly vocation to his World War II experiences as an artilleryman in Europe. Unmarried, he resigned from the Connecticut legislature to enlist in the Army, won three decorations for valor, and was mustered out a lieutenant colonel. "I don't like to be dramatic about it," he says, "but everything just seemed ephemeral after the war." The death of both parents in 1957 seemed to him "a signal from the Lord," and he decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to his church. "My College." Once the resolution was made, Cavanagh had little trouble...
...hard to see how even the most hairy-handed technique could tarnish a play about Sigmund Freud's first case. There is a certain morbid fascination about a pretty young lady in the throes of psychosomatic illness that would enlist most people's interest even if it were done by marionettes in High German...