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White Flag: Going. The Princeton and her sister carriers in the task force operate around the clock. Together they can keep Panther jets, gull-winged Corsairs and big Douglas Skyraider attack bombers in the air 24 hours a day. Daylight operations from carriers are delicate enough. Operations at night require a catlike sense of touch and balance, perfectly trained crews and pilots...
...meetings of the Communist-front John Reed Club in New York in 1935 and 1936, stuck to his story even when he was led in to confront Mrs. Rosenberg and she denied his charge in every detail. From then on, the committee began to dig up a veritable sea gull's nest of rotting political fish heads...
...Padre Was Brave. The ridge did not stay quiet for long. As Craig prepared to order the second assault wave into the valley, U.S. artillery opened up on the Red positions once more. Then the Corsairs came roaring out of the sky again, their gull-like wings almost scraping the tops of the shabby shrubbery on No Name Ridge. Rockets burst all over the ridge with searing, orange explosions; the Corsairs' machine guns stitched line after line of death up, down and across the ridge...
Airborne leathernecks of the Marine Corps' First Air Wing made a dashing debut in Korea last week. Taking off from a Navy carrier, gull-winged Corsair fighter-bombers attacked antiaircraft emplacements, troop concentrations, bridges and transports in the vital Chinju area. In low, ground-hugging runs, the Corsairs flushed Red soldiers out of haystacks and woods...
...wake of our book, Strictly for the Birds, which I told you about recently. The business of miscalling our feathered friends has now been advanced, or retarded, by such additions to the aviary as the Blue Funk, the Lesser Evil, the Involuntary Flinch and, heaven protect us, the Working Gull. There have been many requests for additional copies of the bird book, and we are fulfilling them as long as the supply lasts...