Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid? Were the graduate veterans worried about the problems of the Atomic Age? Ed Prizer, who flew 103 combat missions as a Spitfire pilot in the R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
Like many another collegian, Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
...shadow of personal worry which had hung over the President for twelve days had lifted with old Martha Truman's dogged recuperation. But last week, as Harry Truman flew back from Kansas City, Kans. to Washington, the shadow of public responsibility deepened...
...Maloney, 55, head of the 420-man news department, transmutes the boss's notions into type. He is a Phi Bete from Dartmouth, flew with Rickenbacker in World War I, graduated in reporting from the cooperative City News Bureau, from which he hires up to 18 bright young newsmen a year...
Durham, a Chicago fabricator and steel broker, joined the daisy chain through a broker named McAleer, who phoned him long distance. If Durham could be in New York that night, said McAleer, he could buy 100,000 tons of steel. Too eager to pack, Durham grabbed a spare shirt, flew to New York, and hurried to the rendezvous in a suite in Manhattan's Hampshire House...