Word: fliers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Keep 'Em Flying winds Abbott & Costello round & round with a silly plot about a barnstorming stunt flier (Dick Foran), his rival (William Gargan) and a girl (Carol Bruce). The picture uses a civilian pilot training school for background, some poor songs for vocal relief, and makes noisy, big-mouthed Martha Raye play twins, which is too much of a loud thing...
...principal feature will be a sound film in technicolor, "Wings of Steel," which depicts the life of a flying cadet from the moment he enrolls until he is awarded his wings and receives his commission. Captain Robert S. Fogg, a U.S. Army flier, will then give a short address on the needs and requirements of the Air Corps, and answer any questions on the subject...
With all of last year's Varsity butterflies lost through graduation, Sandy Houston excepted, the burden of aiding Houston this year seems about to fall on the shoulders of Sophomores Don Harting and Tony Myrer or any other butter flier who shows any promise whatsoever...
...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...