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...Gibbs slickly manipulates the fortunes of the Haddon family to show how Britain faces up to war. As Dr. Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
From the time they meet in the theater's bomb cellar during an alert, Rosalind's affair with her flyer is beset by the uncertainties, urgencies and misunderstandings of war, and by the jealousy of a young 4-F dancer (Marc Platt) whom she has coached to a featured spot in the show. But in the end the flyer proves faithful (he was away on a secret mission), the young dancer dies in a bombing, and Rosalind carries on with the show while her new husband goes off to the wars again...
...bite for bite, came up with a new permit to operate in Colombia. TACA de Colombia will be a TACA affiliate, owned 45% by the parent company and 55% by Colombians. Operating in the pack-mule fashion that made it in 1942 the world's No. 1 freight flyer, the Yerex airline will pit two Douglas DC-2½s (DC-2s with DC-3 wings, double doors and reinforced bottoms) and a twin-engine Beechcraft against Pan Am's deluxe equipment. If it needs more money and talent than it has, TACA can draw from big, rich...
Barbara Simonds, 25, is an attractive brunette; she is also an M.D., now interning at Britain's Liverpool Royal Infirmary. Her first husband, an R.A.F. flyer, was shot down over France in 1943. Her second husband was killed at Arnhem...
Acid Test. The real test-battle-only confirmed their liking. On Jan. 8, a young flyer of the Ninth named Richard Bong scored the fifth kill that made him an ace. Other scores soon piled up to compete with his. Quickest to become an ace was Captain James A. Watkins, who in one week ran his total from one to eleven. But by then Dick Bong...