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...seems a pretty, young suburban miss gets delusions of glamour and amuses a soldier from a nearby camp. At the same time, her brother, a flier on his way to North Africa, stops off just long enough to marry the little girl around the corner. There ensues a confusion which has become almost inevitable in such comedies, and double entendres are bandied about like...
...canny, weather-beaten flier, who first who fame as leader of the American Volunteer Group of "Flying Tigers" in Burma and who now commands the U. S. Army Air Forces in China, said he based his optimism as to the length of the Pacific War on reports from the United Nations "Unconditional Surrender" conference at Casablanca...
Emulating the career of another famous flier, now all but forgotten, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker has returned to this country, almost a national deity, capitalizing on the role of a hero to preach a reactionary anti-labor doctrine. Professing to be the voice of 7,500,000 soldiers, he has, in their name, denounced labor unions, urging the control of all organized workers under company unions and the complete abolition of the closed shop. In addition, the veteran flier proposes that the returning soldiers be given a favored position over the ordinary worker...
...took over Bing Crosby's program last summer, will provide the evenings laughs with his rapid-fire banter in the well-known Bob Hope fashion. Continuing in a light, though military vein, there will be brief non-official, non-technical talks by Lieutenant-Commander T. A. Collins, former Marine flier who is now senior member of the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board of the First Naval District, and Captain William F. Upton Jr., director of morale and recreation at Camp Edwards...
After Captain Brewer, a veteran flier of the last war, declared that college men have generally proved to be the best fliers, Lieutenant Henderson said that practically every applicant who passed the physical and mental examinations is found capable of completing the flight training which nets a commission...