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There was little jesting about the menace. Londoners took seriously the flip motto of one ack-ack crew: "If doodle dallies, don't dawdle. Dive!" Nicknames for the Things were short-lived. The latest: "bumblebees." Most Londoners, with prop er respect, called the Things by their formal name: flying bombs...
...Flip a coin, consult a crystal...
...airborne operation was commanded by Colonel Philip G. Cochran of Erie, Pa., who won five medals as a fighter pilot in North Africa, even wider acclaim as the model for "Flip Corkin," Cartoonist Milton Caniff's hero of Terry and the Pirates. First glider pilot to land was handsome Flight Officer Jackie ("The Kid") Coogan, first husband of blond Pin-Up Girl Betty Grable (her second: Jive Bandsman Harry James). Said Flight Officer Coogan: "I sure feel confident riding with Indian troops as passengers." One of Cochran's transport pilots: Lieut. John ("Buddy") Lewis, lanky, hard-hitting third...
Aims and the Men. News of the Nation is an exciting reversal of the usual heavily documented, battles-to-treaties historical form. It manages to avoid the merely flip and irrelevant and as neatly sidesteps the ponderously global. Its aims: 1) information for the adult, now more than ever history-minded ; 2) supplementary reading for the history student (teachers can get it in sections, for era-to-era instruction...
...Grand Island, Neb., a small cluster of people spied the candidate through the train window. Said Willkie's aide-decamp, boyishly exuberant Lem Jones, "They're waving at you." Willkie, engrossed in his talk, gave the platform crowd an absent jerk of the head, a quick flip of the hand-and went on talking. Newsmen thought of the Big Hello which Franklin Roosevelt would have given...