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From a ranch in California's Romero Canyon last week, dark-haired, nine-year-old Marylynn Winkler watched the flight of a glider-towing plane. Suddenly the plane seemed to "break up in mid-air." Marylynn hurried over five miles of mountain and streams, found an injured Army sergeant and private. (Two others were dead.) In the mountain wilderness, Marylynn built a fire to keep the soldiers warm, stood by for five hours until the ambulance arrived. Then she found sapling poles for stretchers. Said Marylynn: "I just couldn't leave them alone and hurt like that." Said...
Tyrone Power went into training at San Diego as a private in the Marine Corps, aimed for duty with the glider forces...
...announced last month by Du Pont. This challenge to the wartime nylon shortage, with drives for old nylon, should mean that many of the 200 million pairs of nylon hose made during the past three years will be converted into parachute cloth, tapes and harness, glider tow ropes, other military goods...
...million people of German descent live, he had set about laying the foundation for an effective fifth-column force. Though he did not have the full equipment his fictional colleague enjoys, he organized "shooting clubs" in nearly every good-sized town, used yacht clubs, youth organizations, possibly even a glider school as other fronts. Given time, some Brazilians thought, he might have raised a force of several hundred thousand...
...young Cripps was an avid horseman and hunter, but his main interests were scientific. At 17 he built and flew a glider. At 18 he received the rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...