Word: hamline
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S cover of Albert Schweitzer is a masterpiece. Ernest Hamlin Baker is to be highly commended...
...Regional Representatives announced by Dean David are: Atlanta, Georgia, George S. Craft, Vice-President of the Trust Co, of Georgia; Buffalo, New York, Samuel D. Lunt, of Hamlin & Lunt; Chicago, Illions, william M. edens, assistant Comproller of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, and Robert V. Hansberger of Container Corporation of America...
...facts are that Chuck was born in a big white house a few miles from Hamlin, W. Va. (pop. 850). His father, A. Hal Yeager, is a prosperous contract gas-well driller. Chuck is a hero to Hamlin, but the townspeople love him with special fervor because he refuses to act like a hero. Says Louie Hoff, music instructor for Lincoln County schools: "He isn't the biggety type. He's still the same nice kid." Mrs. Ocie J. Smith, who has taught school in Hamlin for nigh on 40 years, says: "Land sakes! Why, when...
Chuck got his wings in March 1943 as a flight officer, a warrant rank below the level of the commissioned officers. He joined the 363rd Fighter Squadron and went to England in December. The timid boy from Hamlin flew 64 combat missions, shot down 13 German airplanes, won a captaincy and a hatful of decorations...
Back from the wars, Chuck married Glennis in Hamlin. As a shot-down man, he just about had his choice of jobs in the Air Force. He tried instructing for a while, but found it dull. Then he got to Wright Field as a flight test pilot. After watching him do the most exacting tests (like landing jet fighters "hard"), Colonel Boyd gave him the X-1 project, which all ambitious test pilots wanted. "Chuck is always cool," says Colonel Boyd. "He never gets excited, and he flies like part of the airplane...