Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of realism, is heightened by the wide variety of characters brought into view: a Polish Jew, a German widow, a petty fascist, an English flier, etc. (English titles are provided for the eight foreign languages used in the background behind the Englishmen.) Yet among all these there is no villain, in the Hollywood sense of the word-even the fascist is an understandable human being. Nowhere have the Swiss fallen into the trap of personifying evil in well-known typed characters: the snivelling, mustached Italian informer, the hard-bitten, blond German storm trooper, or the bloated soap-box Mussolini...
Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...
...Scott, In Darr. These fiscal shenanigans were the climax in a two-year-old squabble between eccentric Mr. Scott and a lean, hard-headed ex-flier named Hal S. Darr, who now controls the company which Scott once owned and headed. Darr became board chairman in 1943. At that time the company was doing a $2,800,000-a-year business, principally with the Navy, and Scott was still the boss. But when he totted up the profits on his Navy business he found, what with renegotiation, ($300,000), taxes, etc. that he had only $90,000 left...
About all AVCO did not buy from Powel Crosley Jr. was his Cincinnati Reds baseball team (National League), and rights to the bantam, two-cylinder, $350 car on which Crosley took a flier before the war. He has hopes of redesigning it as a more successful four-cylinder car, and has a quota for auto production in the reconversion period...
Lieut. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., late Navy flier son of the ex-Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for "extraordinary heroism and courage" as a bomber pilot in his last flight over Europe last August...