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...flight airman. Anything else is just "stooging," which is flyers' slang for pooping around. That was the reason joy was only tepid. The man picked to fill McCain's shoes was another naval officer belatedly made into an airman: genial, 60-year-old Vice Admiral Aubrey Wray Fitch...
...felt about as warlike as most Americans. In Honolulu, he made a heartbreaking tour over the death-stinking decks of ships being raised from Pearl Harbor; and when he lunched with a group of nurses, "the least composed person at the table was I." He lost his Abercrombie & Fitch trench coat, the true war correspondent's caparison, in New Caledonia. He took a kind of tourist's gander at quiet Guadalcanal, rode around uneventfully on a destroyer, slept comfortably a few nights in a Noumea hut "between sheets that had covered some well-known newspapermen," and moved...
...decoys. On the dining-room table stood his favorite Christmas present- joint gift of the family-a bullet-loading machine. Father always slept with one to three loaded revolvers under his pillow, plus spare rounds of ammunition. His own room resembled "a merger between A. G. Spalding and Abercrombie & Fitch...
...James W. Oliver, 4-43, Bates College '35 and Lewiston, Maine. Jim plays the trumpet and has taught it to private students as a sideline. He had his own 15-piece orchestra in Lewiston, and once was heard over a national hookup with the Fenton Brothers Orchestra on the Fitch Bandwagon...
Best thing was the New Yorker's quote of a jaunty Bar Association yearbook that explains wisely, "His father considered that he was too young, and ... he went to Princeton for a year before entering Harvard." There's a nice little slam at Abercrombie & Fitch...