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Sued for Divorce. Army Glider Pilot Jackie Coogan, 28; by Flower Parry Coogan, 20, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after 16 months; in Los Angeles...
...Glider Replacement Center Albuquerque...
...army unique in U.S. history. Its booted paratroops, glider squadrons, armored army-within-an-army, are new on the U.S. scene (and newer, perhaps, than they need have been if the Army's pre-1940 command had not been approximately as sleepy as the country was). It is an army created with phenomenal speed from the embryo Regular Army...
Less kiddish Jackie Coogan, 27, was graduated as a glider pilot, made a staff sergeant, at the Army Air Forces training field at 29 Palms, Calif...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...