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...Hunt, Tex., Dr. Pierre B. Hill received a letter offering condolence for the death of his son, David, a volunteer flyer with the Chinese Army. Dr. Hill investigated, unearthed what he took to be a Japanese campaign against U.S. morale. David Hill last week was very much alive...
...Engineer Hugh J. Casey, Cavalryman Clinton A. Pierce, Infantryman Arnold J. Funk, Coast Artilleryman William F. Marquat, Flyer Harold H. George. For astute staff work Colonel Carl H. Seals was also made a brigadier...
Good as Mr. Moore is, he has to bank on the turns to stay ahead of Comic Bob Hope, the Flexible Flyer. Each of them is a hilarious mixture of dopey dove and smart serpent. Hope's style of comedy (the dead-pan wisecrack, the unembarrassed exhibition-e.g., demonstrating the correct way to don a woman's girdle) is designed for counterpunching. His performance is patly complementary to that of Victor Moore, who has been around long enough (66 years) to know how to handle enthusiastic young comics without either stealing or being stolen from...
James H. Doolittle, famed speed flyer, was promoted from major to lieutenant colonel. He is doing aircraft production research in Baltimore...
...Martha's Vineyard, Mass., he offered his services to the Army Air Corps from which he resigned last April, after Frank lin Roosevelt had pegged him as a new-day "Copperhead." At his age (40 next month), Lindbergh probably could not get a job as a combat flyer. If he were given a commission-for which, as a new applicant, he would have to wait his turn-he could serve his country usefully as a specialist in aviation. He knows a lot more about that subject than he does about world politics...