Word: flyering
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...leaguer. That prompted the artful Jimmy Dykes of the White Sox to distribute papier-mache fire helmets to his players whenever Williams came to bat. The only thing anyone liked about him was his hitting-a terrific .406 in 1941. Then he joined the Navy, eventually became a Marine flyer...
...introspective young war widow and three jittery ex-marines, the humdrum postwar world looks pretty hopeless. Dorothy McGuire cannot put aside the dead romantic daydreams that crashed over Europe with her flyer husband. Ex-Pugilist Bill Williams bitterly resents his new artificial legs. Robert Mitchum takes to drink, hoping to forget the painful silver plate in his head. Guy Madison, home from the Pacific with a whole skin, is too restless to stomach the unexciting routine of a civilian...
...Liberal Union, the group had obtained a five day permit to operate the booth, and since the City Manager's act on Tuesday, they have been actively investigating their rights in the matter. Along with the effort to get telegrams and postcards sent, they had been distributing a flyer around the Square calling attention to the booth and urging people to take part in a buyer's strike against higher prices...
Major Arthur Wermuth, the erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan," now touring with an air circus (though he was not a wartime flyer), flew higher & higher. Mrs. Fred Steele of Denver announced that he and her daughter-a parachutist with the circus-were engaged to be married. No word came from the Filipino nurse who claimed he married her in 1941 (she's suing for an annulment). Word did come from his Traverse City, Mich, wife of the past ten years-"Well, that does befuddle...
...Palace of Justice. Racked by fits of tuberculous coughing, her 25-year-old face seared and drawn like a crone's, she heard herself accused of sleeping with a prize package of Axis agents-Count Galeazzo Ciano, Nazi Envoy Otto Abetz, a long list of others, a Luftwaffe flyer to whom she bore a daughter...