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...Corps announced that its seafaring air group commander was barrel-chested, 44-year-old Colonel Albert D. Cooley, veteran of Bougainville. Colonel Cooley will never become an admiral: the Marine carriers will be manned and commanded by Navymen. But he will boss a potent striking force: several squadrons of gull-winged, bomb-bearing Vought Corsairs, the first to be put in carrier service. This week his pilots were hard at work at carrier training at a California base, hoped to be ready for sea duty soon...
...elusive as an Irish moonbeam. In all the recent arts of Ireland there was no evanescence quite like his. He was the man who was going to carve a memorial to the dead of the Lusitania in the waterfront square of the town of Cobh, an easy gull's night from the Lusitania's ocean grave...
...Gould, "the last of the bohemians," otherwise known as Professor Sea Gull Professor Bloomingdale, The Mongoose. Gould tells what it took to make him: "old Yankee blood, an overwhelming aversion to possessions, four years of Harvard, and 25 years of beating the living hell out of my insides with bad hooch and bad food." Joe professes never to be without his "three Hs" - homelessness, hunger, hangovers. On winter nights he sports a layer of newspapers between his shirt and undershirt. He is 5 ft. 4, weighs 95 lb., and trims his cinnamon beard every other Easter. Twenty-six years...
...live, doctors assured him, unless he quit working. He used the year in incessant work, in which his test pilot faithfully collaborated and to which his wife as faithfully submitted. When he died in the summer of 1937, of actual exhaustion, his imagination and perseverance had shaped to gull-like finality the fastest and finest fighter plane in existence. The film closes with some . hair-raising shots of the kind of Spitfire action the designer never...
Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...