Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higginson boys' father was away. Francis Lee Higginson Jr. of Groton and Harvard, son of a famed Boston banking family, was serving in Key West, Fla. as a Lieut. Commander in the U.S. Navy. The mother who now lay so still and strange on the floor was the former Harriet Beecher Scoville of Hampton, Va., slim, vivacious, 31, a Back Bay Boston belle, great-granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher...
...always been a popular and respected officer. He left a host of stunned friends behind him in London. The blabbing episode occurred two months ago, but disclosure of the case was held up until last week. Then Lieut. Colonel Miller was discovered in an army hospital at Coral Gables, Fla., where he was said to be "suffering from serious physical ailments . . . not connected with his overseas service." Two days later Lieut. Colonel Miller left the hospital on 30 days' leave, destination unannounced...
JEAN AUTREY Kissimmee, Fla...
Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...
While a bill to commission Women's Airforce Service Pilots as Army officers was still kicking around in Congressional committee, 50 members of the WASP had completed their first week of schooling at the A.A.F. School of Applied Tactics at Orlando, Fla. How they jumped the legislative gun was an official mystery. But the news sparked new outbursts in the stalemated battle of the sexes over who is to ferry the Army's transports...