Word: gunners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Toolmaker & Poet. A college senior, a Chicago toolmaker named Edwin Dzingle, the tail gunner of the B-29 that dropped the first bomb, a Texas farmer with a drawl as wide as the Panhandle, discussed the problem earnestly with Albert Einstein, Henry Wallace, Harold E. Stassen, Congressman Jerry Voorhis, Senator Brien McMahon, Harold Ickes, Archibald MacLeish, and Joseph E. Davies, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. Citizen Dzingle sounded every inch a toolmaker; Einstein plowed shyly and awkwardly through his lines. Only one of the 21-man panel was unconcerned. Said 85-year-old Samuel Gould: "I've seen...
...railroad station. The Americans saw them off. Generals Arnold and Shtykov chatted pleasantly for half an hour. Vodka was poured. As the Soviet train pulled north toward Korea's iron curtain, the last Russian visible, standing in the rear door of the end coach, was a Tommy-gunner...
Adventure was clearly carpentered to fit the old Gable formula, and ex-aerial-gunner-photographer Gable himself fits the formula as smoothly and as agreeably as ever. If he is a little chubbier around the jowls, he is still able to sling his weight around-and in his bright eye is the same old wicked fire...
Purchasing Agent. Few knew this sly-eyed World War I gunner well. One wretched little man who did was Walter Kadow, who stole the funds of a gang of political assassins in the '205. Bormann served a year in jail for his part in Kadow's murder...
...hand combat. The Raiders went on to Guadalcanal and there, during Carlson's famous 30-day patrol behind enemy lines, among other feats Smith knocked out two machine-gun nests and choked one Jap to death. Willing to volunteer for anything, he served a tour as an aerial gunner ("I wasn't doing anything at the time") and shot down two planes...