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...said. "There was no inspiration performing for an audience of one. ... I would be crying, but all he would say was: 'Take it off! Take it off!' ': Of Price's harmonica style she declared: "It stifled me." -/ As Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, Negro flier-of-fortune, waved good-by to his wife Essie in front of her Harlem apartment, a process server thrust into his surprised hand papers notifying him of her suit against him for separation. She asked $30 a week
...peculiar phases and helped mightily in making the News foreign coverage the best in the U.S. During the days of the Bore War he waddled in a taxicab through the Siegfried Line, spent many a pleasant afternoon on a terrace in Luxemburg dreaming up antics for a French flier he referred to as "Albert le Screwball." He fled before the Nazis in France, was in London during the worst bombardments. The wheeze of his laughter was never stilled whether he was jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean...
...British wind up was its engine: a 3,000-h.p. monster capable of lifting the fighter nearly to 40,000 feet. Since in air battle the plane on top always has an advantage, the "Meph" is a formidable opponent. The British talked vaguely about a super-high-flier of their own, but did not say that it was yet ready for action...
...NAZI FLIER-Gottfried Leske-Dial...
What is the Nazi airman like who, in a flash of TNT and the space of a second, without seeing you or being seen, blows to pieces your children, your home, your life? This week I Was a Nazi Flier claimed to tell. The book purported to be the diary of pseudonymous Gottfried Leske, flight sergeant in the Luftwaffe, who took part in the great Blitz on London, Birmingham, Coventry, is now a prisoner of war in Canada...