Word: frenyear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many thanks for news of my nephew, Hewitt Frenyear Mitchell, airmail pilot, Shanghai to Peiping, who shared with a news correspondent a diplomatic resistance to Japanese searchers of his plane [TIME, Dec. 9]. Will you now give his correct name, and perhaps a few other facts? Born of New England ancestry, raised among the raisins of the San Joaquin Valley, he worked his way through Stanford largely by radio repairing, overcame parental doubts, took army aviation tests and found eyesight deficient in one minor point. His oculist, who had helped prepare army tests, advised special exercises for a year. Doggedly...